Why Google Analytics Rocks!

Here are a few reasons why Google Analytics rocks now more than ever.

1)

Google's *new segmentation features* allow me to do tremendous drill-down comparative analysis of my pages by myriad criterium.
For example, take a look at my segmented Virginia visitors compared to all visitors worldwide. See below:

2)

If I want to track how many of my visitors are "return visitors" (a.k.a. "regular visitors"), I can simply run the below segmentation display:

3)

If I want to know how many of those return visitors are returning every 7 days or less, I can simply run the below segmentation display:

And even more powerful, yet!

4)

If I want to run a triple cross-comparison, I can run a check of all total visitors, overlaid with return visitors overlaid with visitors who return every 7 days or less.
And this shows some very interesting patterns, indeed. Essentially expressing that of all my visitors, return visitors account for
about 61% of all visitors and of those 1,091 return visitors, about 83% are returning every 7 days or less.

The Line of Cultural Upheaval

In "The God Who Is There", Francis A. Schaeffer says that cultural changes begins with the Philosophers and then touches the Arts where it filters into General Culture then Music and dead last, it touches Theology.

It seems that this hypothesis may apply here. Do you hear the theological change in these music lyrics?

"They say it's not about religion
But then they tell you how to think
They say it's all about the way you understand it
Then they tell you what it means that you've experienced these things."

From Deconstruction by Justin McRoberts

It may sound the same as what many of my readers have heard, but this is a shift crying out from a very different theological corner and background... one that I come from. Of course, if you've never heard of Justin McRoberts, you wouldn't know that now would you?

The words of someone less jaded...

These are the words of someone less jaded than me and someone more energetic (she skydives, mountain climbs, snowboards, etc.). I like the way Tracee writes. I like the way she thinks. I thought like her in less cynical times.

Or is it that I had the same questions of myself and God back when I had the energy to care about working harder at loving God? Maybe that's it. I still care at some level so her writing still resonates with me.

From Tracee Persiko:

"I look around Starbucks and see goals being talked about and goals being pursed. The girl to my right highlights her text books and study materials – her goal…to get some where, and the dream to be someone. To my left are two girls who are in a tutoring session; one older girl tutoring a younger. What is the goal? Is the goal to help? To offer? But as girls do, they are talking about everything except 'math.'

But what of these goals Lord? What of these self plans of ours? What of these 'lights at the end of the tunnel' dreams? To the writer of Ecclesiastes our goals are nothing. Life changes so much. Thoughts bombard us with instant gratification offers. How does one weed through the noise?

I feel like I miss the point when I just stick to my goals. I am trying to think about the work week 2000 years ago. Did people work 80 hour weeks? Did people always try and do what ever it took to get a head? Was money always the end goal? Maybe for some, but that shows how we are never far off from resembling the people of old. Jesus was always about relationship. His goal was always about revealing the Father. His goals were the Father. I have to think that my goals and life should resemble that same thinking. I have to ask myself the questions are my goals to reveal the Father? Are my goals relationship? Do I coast on the coat-tails of others relationships with Christ? Is my brokenness freed up in me to be passed on to others? Do I embrace my weaknesses so that God’s grace is broken bread passed out through me by encouragement or hope? Follow the ways of Jesus and life changes, meaning changes, goals, desires, dreams, perspective, fears and experience change.

I want my life to be mistaken identity for Him. I want people to know something is different about me, or that I have been with Him. My prayer is comes from John 1:3, 'Through him all things are made. Without him nothing is made that has been made.' This verse includes me. I am made through him. All my hopes, dreams, passions, and desires come in to being through my maker. Without him nothing is made. That includes life."

Where I am

Featuring footage and pictures from the San Juan Islands in Washington State.

My Cousin and his kids

If I ever moved back here to Seattle... it would be to be with this family. :)