Analytics annotations - at last!

I missed this before the holidays but Analytics launched a Holiday Bonus pack of new features that finally includes... annotations. No more will we have to churn out and reformat to explain changes in data and performance. If, like me you have some sites that you monitor closely, but others that you are more irregular with, and you work on with a distributed group - then this is for you. Should make it really easy to combine information from different people employing simple marketing tactics and infer results without spending too much time in the meeting room... Its also pretty cool if your memory is a bit shaky :)

Blimey my analytics have had an upgrade

Well perhaps i can be accused of not paying as much attention to my stats as i should but I just noticed the new beta of Google Analytics that I was kindly presented with on accessing the site.
First impressions are good - some nicer visual presentation of both navigation and graphs and charts and some roundy-corner rollovers for the charts as well. The goals have got a bit confusing for me, my site was confusing enough to track on this basis as it was but now i may have to rethink again... Great news is that there are now easy emailable reports and a customisable dashboard (another kinda ajax homepage).

There is a much more complete review of the new features here - frankly I haven't had time to go through it all yet.. It is a bit error prone and annoyingly it seems to have coincided with my analytics gadget in iGoogle no longer working but that could be unrelated - actually if it hadn;t broken I might not have spotted the upgrade for a little longer!