Running dual analytics, getclicky and google analytics. In part for SEO and for heatmap.
 

I really like some of the features that getclicky provides.

Google gets all kinds of info from your site, even pages it doesn't crawl using analytics. Is it almost a given to include google analytics on your site for this reason? Bounce rate and engagement are crucial measures of a sites rankability, just wondering if not having google code on your site is trying to do without a necessary evil, thoughts?

hmmm, maybe I should ask this somewhere else?

Theres a lot of speculation out on the street and some of it could be correct, to be honest right now I'm staying away from any SEO tool that Google provides. The only time that I did fully integrate it into one of my sites I lost all ranks within a month. It may have been for other reasons, but I prefer not to take the risks with other ranking blogs that I own.