Re: [tlug] [OT] Scraping Google Analytics for top ten pages on a site

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

Christian Horn writes:

 > Shouldnt all questions google analy- tics can answer also be
 > gatherable from local webservers accesslogs?

No.  Google can use its computational power and expertise to do a
better job of analysis automatically than most SMEs can do with their
best people working on the problem -- and they are needed elsewhere.

Google can also use its huge store of global information to give you
some hints you wouldn't necessarily have access to otherwise.  Sure,
they're usually not going to give you *much*.  But something is better
than nothing in many cases.

Whether this is worth enough to give Google access to your data is a
very good question.