Having freshly started with my current employer, I was given a blunt mission, in other words a throw in the deep-end! I had to find out what users were actually doing on our flagship product, that was back in 2006 and it sounded rather simple.  At the time the said product was running on Oracle Portal.  Believe it or not, no web analytics attached to the framework - mind you, in 2010 Microsoft Sharepoint is exactly the same.  So we looked at different options and eventually went for Hitbox from WebSideStory, we implemented it during 2007. This is when my interest and my knowledge for all things Web Analytics really increased, it even accelerated later this year, just like my post rate on this blog!