Urchin is a web statistics analysis program, now owned by Google and a predecessor of Google Analytics
Urchin is a web statistics analysis program developed by Urchin Software Corporation. Urchin is used to analyze web server log file content and display the traffic information on that website based upon the log data.
Urchin Software Corp. was acquired by Google in April 2005, forming Google Analytics. In April 2008, Google released Urchin 6 from which the widely used Google Analytics is derived.