There are three major ways visitors reach your website. Direct traffic, search engines and link referrals. Knowing where visitors come from helps us identify areas of opportunity. At the same time we can also determine weak areas where we should exert more effort on.

Understanding who your site visitors are is one of the most critical steps in optimizing your online presence. Google Analytics can help you to understand who your visitors are and what their expectations are.

This is a test to see if the Google Alert system will pick up my name - Grant Summerlin. Another name to add to test the alert function is Don Riker.

For the past four years, we've enlisted the services of Google's Analytics(GA) reporting service to track all activity on our clients' websites. We initially chose GA for the easy-to-comprehend graphical delivery of the information and for a few mind-numbing technical reasons.

1. Netbook: Mini computers, weighing around 2 pounds and the size of a large book, are ideal tools for the busy executives and professionals on the go. They are not as powerful as traditional notebooks, the screens are a lot smaller and the battery life is not as long.

Software Application Installation
Now that the operating systems are running smoothly after several rounds of Microsoft patches, updates,

Installation
The install process on both the workstation and laptop when quite smoothly. With each new version of OS Microsoft releases, the installation wizard continues to improve. The most recent addition to the wizard that allows the user to better understand the process and time remaining is a progress bar with verbiage that states what is be installed or configured.

32 or 64 bit operating system?
I opted for the 64 bit flavor of Win7