Why is GG analytics showing so much (not provided)?

[Ezpro9]

is there a better analytics tool (preferably free) that will show the actual keywords that drive traffic to a website or are we doomed to deal with (not provided) as a result of the Big G's retarded privacy policy? - seems they cant make up their minds as to whether they are going to take care of site owners or advertisers - but they should really take a stand and stop putting out half-ass results

if anyone has any helpful ideas that may ease my pain i would be forever in your debt.

[Ezpro9]

thanks for the link - i will try that hack - looks simple enough

[TakeshiYoung]

Unfortunately, (not provided) keywords has been a growing trend, and can be expected to grow for the foreseeable future.

One thing you can do to try to get some data out of (not provided) traffic is to look at the landing page, to get a better idea of what kind of term drove the traffic. This is a good resource for getting a better handle on (not provided):

http://econsultancy.com/us/blog/8342-how-to-steal-some-not-provided-data-back-from-google

[NakulGoyal]

Back in October 2011, Google introduced SSL search as default search for all logged in users. There's no way to get search query data for such users. For technology oriented sites, I have seen that number to go as high at 80% and others vary.

Unfortunately, no option exists / it's not possible to get the data. It would defeat the purpose of an HTTPS search.