Way back on November 22nd, I wrote a post called Google Analytics Goes Free - But There is a Cost, pointing out some of the growing pains that came from the switch to a free service. At that time, their web reports had more than a day’s lag. Google stopped accepting new registrations while they addressed the performance issues.

On December 5th, Google published an update on the progress they had made. Things were on the upswing.

But now it’s December 24th. More than a month after my original post, Google still hasn’t turned new registrations back on. They also haven’t updated their status page in more than 19 days.

The most surprising thing about this is how inconsistent the service has been compared to other Google services. There are many more reliable Google services labeled as Beta, including News, Gmail, Froogle, and Groups. Traffick’s Andrew Goodman wrote a blog post (still in beta) addressing Google’s definition of beta: “Could it be that “beta” is code for “full product release,” and vice-versa?“

If that’s the case, Google, please put Google Analytics back into beta.

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