Updated: 8/17/11 at 2:10 PM PST Beginning today, there will be a small change in how sessions are calculated in Google Analytics. We think this update will lead to a clearer understanding of website interactions. We also want to explain how these changes might impact your reports. What's changing? Currently, Google Analytics ends a session when: More than 30 minutes have elapsed between pageviews for a single visitor. At the end of a day. When a visitor closes their browser.

Cross-posted from the AdSense and Google Webmaster blogs . It's been a busy week for us here at the Googleplex. First we released +1 buttons to Google search sites globally , then we announced the beginning of the Google+ project . The +1 button and the Google+ project are both about making it easier to connect with the people you trust online . For the +1 button, that means bringing advice from trusted friends and contacts right into Google search,

This is part of our series of posts highlighting the new Google Analytics . The new version of Google Analytics is currently available in beta to all Analytics users. And follow Google Analytics on Twitter for the latest updates. This week we're going a bit meta with an overview of the new Overview reports in the new Google Analytics. Overview reports were part of the old version of Analytics, of course, but we've made some changes to help your analysis.