Latest Feature of Google Anlytics...Anonymous Data Sharing

Google has recently introduced a new feature named "Anonymous Data Sharing".... to surface more useful or interesting data to Analytics users. Data contained here comes from all websites which have opted-in anonymous data sharing with Google Analytics.

Main features of this are as following:

 Site Metrics

Compared to a year ago, websites have seen reduced pages / visit, average time on site, as well as bounce rate.

	11/1/09 - 2/1/10	11/1/10 - 2/1/11	Difference
Pages/Visit	4.9	4.5	-0.4
Bounce Rate	48.2%	47.0%	-1.2%
Avg Time on Site	5:49	5:23	-0:2

Breakdown by Geography

Traffic Sources
Our anonymous database has aggregated geographic breakdown at the country level. Here are a few representative countries and their respective aggregate metrics. The first number in each cell represents the metric for the date range 11/1/10-2/1/11. The parenthesized number is the Year over Year delta compared to a year ago.

Country	Pages / Visit	Bounce Rate	Avg Time on Site
United States	4.7 (-0.1)	42.5% (-6.1%)	6:06 (-0:10)
United Kingdom	4.9 (-0.3)	41.5% (+0.2%)	5:38 (-0.27)
France	4.4 (-0.4)	49.7% (+1.4%)	4:40 (-0:08)
Brazil	4.1 (-0.1)	47.8% (-2.9%)	5:20 (+0:03)
China	4.1 (-0.1)	58.2% (+1.0%)	3:46 (+0:37)
Japan	3.9 (-0.1)	48.6% (-9.0%)	3:47 (-2:59)

For bounce rate, the distribution by country is plotted below:The distribution above is annotated with some countries -- which seem to indicate a story of leisure and stage of economic development. For a related metric: average time on site, the distribution by country is plotted below:
The type of countries annotated in the average time on site graph above seem to be in reverse order as those in the bounce rate distribution.

 Breakdown by Traffic Sources

Traffic sources below are identified by how the "source" and "medium""" parameters are received by the Google Analytics collecting servers. Here is an article describing what these designations refer to.

Traffic Sources	Pages / Visit	Bounce Rate	Avg Time on Site
Direct	4.0 (-0.5)	47.2% (-4.0%)	5:21 (-0:07)
Referral	5.0 (+0.1)	43.1% (-1.1%)	6:36 (-1:48)
Organic Search	4.9 (-0.1)	47.9% (-1.1%)	4:43 (+0:06)
CPC Search	5.6 (+0.0)	41.4 (-1.7%)	3:57(+0:07)

Traffic sources
below are identified by how the "source" and "medium" parameters are received by the Google Analytics collecting servers. Here is an article describing what these designations refer to.

% Visits from Sources	11/1/09 - 2/1/10	11/1/10 - 2/1/11	Difference
Direct	36.5%	36.8%	+0.3%
Referral	21.0%	19.4%	-1.6%
Search Engines	27.0%	28.0%	+1.0%
Other	15.5%	15.8%	+0.3%

Operating Systems

Browsers and Operation Systems (OS) are identified by the "referrer" string sent by users' browsers.

% Visits from OS	11/1/09 - 2/1/10	11/1/10 - 2/1/11	Difference
Windows	89.9%	84.8%	-5.1%
Macintosh	4.5%	5.2%	+0.7%
Linux	0.6%	0.7%	+0.1%
Other	5%	9.3%	+4.3%

Work wellll. track your visitors more efficiently.. every before... Google is genuius.............