Google launched the realtime stats in analytics in beta a few weeks ago, I quickly signed up and after a few days got the confirm-email. Great!

My often biggest issue with analytics have been the terribly long delay from the visit to the site until it shows up in the statistics. Especially when creating funnels, goals and other more specialized tracking stuff, the debugging have been extremely lengthy and timeconsuming since I usually had to wait to verify it was working. 

Will realtime solve that? No, as far as it looks now, nope. It includes the nice suboptions Overview, Locations, Traffic sources and Content. I would have liked to see goals and funnels. Imagine the possibility to see in realtime how people enter and exit your funnels, would have been fantastic. 

Is it any good then, well, the live-view of contentpages is really nice, but its mostly neat to get away using yet another service for the realtimestuff than anything else. 

Although, I hope they’ll improve it shortly. 

Update 1: This is the results after a few minutes of putting up this post, a worlwide spread to 10 visitors. :)