Google Analytics has now been made even more global. The Analytics blog announced the availability of Google Analytics in six more languages: Slovak, Bulgarian, Greek, Catalan, Lithuanian and Vietnamese. This has made it accessible in a total of 31 languages. The users can see the new languages updated in the language menu, on the Google Analytics login page.

Google Analytics had launched its skill qualification program Google Analytics IQ last year. Google Analytics blog has announced  that the passing score, previously 75%, has been raised to 80%. It may be that the analysts were doing so very well in this qualification program that this easy test has now been made difficult to clear.

The news is out that Google Analytics has added AdSense for Feeds and Google Feedburner data for all the items it analyzes & monitors. If you are also using one of the two tools for feed advertising, you will now be able to see the performance of your ad implementation in terms of item clicks. Apart from this, Google Analytics will also give additional information to make you understand which Feedburner is getting more traffic to your site.

You might be familiar with Google Analytics but you may not have heard about Trakkboard desktop application. It will help you in managing Google Analytics data and that too from a stand-alone application.

Developed on the Adobe AIR platform, you can download and install the application from the Trakkboard website. With the application, you can combine data from different websites to make a single report that will show the patterns followed by a group of similar websites.

If we talk about online web stat software and tracking tools, the list would be endless. So, how would you go about choosing which tool is right for your website. Here's the list of top 5 analytics and web stat tools that would fit the everyday needs of Webmaster:

1. Stat Counter

Google has announced the launch of a new Analytics feature Intelligence that will be of great use for Webmasters.

Here is the latest from Google Analytics API team, they have rolled out new features for their API, which includes event tracking, navigation data, and increased filter length.

Now, the users can use API for event tracking. They can easily measure the number of user interactions with a website.For navigational data, the users can easily create new visualizations like custom site overlays, so as to find which links get the most clicks.

Recently, it was found that some of the Google Analytics users are confused as why Bing, a new search engine can't be seen in the search engine reports. As, we also know that Bing was launched a few days ago by Microsoft, the news came as a surprise.

Google recently announced two new features for Google Analytics. These features are specifically meant for advanced users.

The First Advanced Feature: Pivoting and Secondary Dimensions.

Here's the Google's explanation about this feature:

“You can use these new power features to do in-depth, on-the-fly analysis and see all the information in the same table. View data by two dimensions at once, such as keywords and cities. Next, pivot by another dimension such as source, while also viewing two additional metrics such as visits and pages/visit…. all within a single table view.”