Jul 24
Where are the Stats and Analytics for Google Knol?
You know, it’s shocking how many Web 2.0, user-content-generation sites launch without providing any kind of metrics to their users. It took, like, four years for Flickr to add detailed stats about who was looking at my photos, and YouTube was similarly slow on the stats front.
Google’s got plenty of examples to learn from. And yet they seem to have launched without any user-facing statistics. There are comments and reviews, but there’s no way to judge how many visitors your knol is receiving.
If you enable AdSense revenue sharing on your knols, you may be able to get a view into your knols’ popularity. AdSense normally reports how many impressions an ad has received, so maybe this functionality will extend to ads on knols.
That said, Google obviously has some readily-available technology to provide plenty of analytics to its users. I assume they haven’t rolled out these features because, in the early days, they don’t want to advertise low performing pages?
July 24th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
I agree, where are the stats? Also, why can I not publish a document at Google docs to a Knol? It would seem that I should be able to do this easily.