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Sharepoint Usage, Google Analytics

So up till now at my new job, i have been by far more concerned with making sure my sharepoint farm has 100% uptime, is stable, and well working. Now that things are actually configured correctly (for the most part) and are stable i am looking at how much the sever is being used, and how fast it is. What i have found actually shocked me a little, and i have found a few bumps along the road. I know you thinking, "hey doesn't sharepoint have built in usage logs?" Yes, it does. Does it provide alot of information? No. Does it always work the way it is suppose to? Nooooooo. My most recent experience has been with our new landing page push out. Avg hit was in the multiple 1,000 loads perday for the first week. When i noticed this pattern i started to look into "hey, can i cache the page more" and yes, you can. So i turned on page caching for the whole site collection and then the following week, looked at my usage logs and saw something disturbing. My avg hits for th