Chrome moved past Firefox, an offering by the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation that Google has helped support, according to the website analytics company StatCounter.

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The industry began taking notice in 2011 when Google rolled out a consumer privacy update which discontinued access to keyword information and website analytics packages.

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If I want website analytics, I turn to Google.

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Alexa, the online metrics and analytics website, ranks Orkut as the fourth most popular website in Brazil, trailing google.com and its Brazilian version (google.com.br), and YouTube (which is also owned by Google).

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And you've heard of Google Analytics, the dashboard for website usage statistics.

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In fact, their recent marketing dashboard shows they understand the need for small companies to have an easy-to-use analytics dashboard around social media, customer website traffic, pay-per-click in one spot.

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The analytics, reports and reviews are available on the ALMOCA website in English and Russian Languages.

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Finally, The Next Web asks if StumbleUpon just passed Facebook for social media traffic: according to analytics service Statcounter, the site has surpassed Facebook to become the number one website for generating social media traffic in the U.S, accounting for 43.34% of the market as January 2011 commenced.

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