Only Google and the person who has the Google Analytics account can view GA data. You can, however, give other people access to your Google Analytics account, but that's something you set up on your own. (I imagine this would be the kind of thing communities would do.) This data is not available to the public.
I don't think it will let you know who is hotlinking, because hotlinks don't load the JavaScript Google Analytics uses to keep its statistics.
But it will let you see how many people are reading your fic, although it won't be able to match up users with their accounts or anything. (The closest it comes is that you can generally assume a referral link from an account's reading list probably comes from that account, but even that isn't certain in many cases, as public posts on your reading list can be viewed by others.)
It won't let you know if someone is just reading your post on their friends list, but it will let you know if they go view something under the cut. But yes, it would let you know that people were looking at your journal.
DW as a company doesn't have access to Google Analytics data--they can't log into your account or anything--but they have access to any data Google Analytics could make just because they're hosting the servers and anybody running servers has access to logs like that if they so choose and that's true across the whole internet. LiveJournal keeps track of that kind of stuff too, for instance. And it's important to the service for DW and LJ to have those kinds of statistics--there's certain things you can tell, like if you have User Interface problems that are causing people to abandon tasks halfway through.
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Date: 2009-04-21 01:04 am (UTC)Only Google and the person who has the Google Analytics account can view GA data. You can, however, give other people access to your Google Analytics account, but that's something you set up on your own. (I imagine this would be the kind of thing communities would do.) This data is not available to the public.
I don't think it will let you know who is hotlinking, because hotlinks don't load the JavaScript Google Analytics uses to keep its statistics.
But it will let you see how many people are reading your fic, although it won't be able to match up users with their accounts or anything. (The closest it comes is that you can generally assume a referral link from an account's reading list probably comes from that account, but even that isn't certain in many cases, as public posts on your reading list can be viewed by others.)
It won't let you know if someone is just reading your post on their friends list, but it will let you know if they go view something under the cut. But yes, it would let you know that people were looking at your journal.
DW as a company doesn't have access to Google Analytics data--they can't log into your account or anything--but they have access to any data Google Analytics could make just because they're hosting the servers and anybody running servers has access to logs like that if they so choose and that's true across the whole internet. LiveJournal keeps track of that kind of stuff too, for instance. And it's important to the service for DW and LJ to have those kinds of statistics--there's certain things you can tell, like if you have User Interface problems that are causing people to abandon tasks halfway through.