My favorite service in my original comparison, Measure Map has since fallen into my “ugh” list because of how horribly, terribly poor it is. As they opened it up, the application failed to scale. They seem to miss stats left and right and the reports are more or less unusable. It seems directly related to load as it seems to get better at very weird hours. Guess you don’t ask usability experts about scalability or something. Granted, looking at my blog, you probably wouldn’t ask me about usability. I do happen to know a few things about scaling big web sites, so it makes sense.

You might ask Google about scalability. Instead of just asking, though, they found a way to get Google to buy Measure Map. Awesome. Now, Google has two poor performing web analytics services. At least Measure Map isn’t ugly and is tailored toward blogs. Google Analytics, as I wrote before, is much more business oriented and also had its own scaling issues.

I kid about the Google and poor performing analytics thing, of course. Google should be able to help the (former) Adaptive Path folks figure out how to make their service perform. Now, if they could figure out how it was going to make money…