tedster
msg:4352939 | 2:54 am on Aug 18, 2011 (gmt 0) |
Boy, I'm glad they nailed that one. It's already been quite a PITA!
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gotmetoo
msg:4353033 | 11:56 am on Aug 18, 2011 (gmt 0) |
They did not do jack. My stats are still off as they were for the past week or so.
Now, the site that is 90% organic SEO traffic, 7% direct traffic and 3% referrals for the past 5 years suddenly shows 70% direct traffic, 30% organic SEO traffic and no referrals whatsoever.
The list goes on.
Google needs to hire people who really knows what they are doing. It appears that aside from mediocre programmers they have no quality assurance people on staff and rely on us to troubleshoot their work :)
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bwnbwn
msg:4353094 | 1:59 pm on Aug 18, 2011 (gmt 0) |
I see big problems as well. It does not look like a fix at all 2 me.
Let me ask a question>
Statcounter shows say 1k in hits an a given day. GA shows 500. I have been seeing this for some time now. Does anybody else use a counter on the site and their numbers a 50% or so less than GA numbers?
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rlange
msg:4353135 | 3:53 pm on Aug 18, 2011 (gmt 0) |
gotmetoo wrote:
They did not do jack. |
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bwnbwn wrote:
I see big problems as well. It does not look like a fix at all 2 me. |
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The bug they fixed was very specific, dealing with new vs. returning visits only. A comment [l3analytics.com] I saw elsewhere claimed that it was the result of GA occasionally improperly updating the tracking cookie, making a visitor's first visit seem like a return visit.
This fix probably wouldn't affect much, if anything, else.
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Ryan
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serpsup
msg:4353147 | 4:19 pm on Aug 18, 2011 (gmt 0) |
Things are better but definitely still off. I am showing 9,079 visits, 12,220 unique visits for one of my sites for yesterday 8/17.
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freejung
msg:4353158 | 4:36 pm on Aug 18, 2011 (gmt 0) |
It seems to have helped a lot for me -- I was seeing obviously wrong numbers for visits, bounce rate, time on site, and average pageviews. These stats now appear to be returning to plausible levels.
Edit -- post #666, awesome!
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Bewenched
msg:4353196 | 6:19 pm on Aug 18, 2011 (gmt 0) |
Found another "bug" in analytics.
This is regarding the Search Engine Referrals
My own stats for a single period show the top referring engines to be (in this order)
1. Yahoo
2. Bing
3 Google
Yet analytics shows:
1. Google
2. Yahoo
3. Bing
think they are scewing the results to
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bwnbwn
msg:4353197 | 6:28 pm on Aug 18, 2011 (gmt 0) |
I know it was suppose to fix a specific problem, but since this change my GA stats have been so far off from the statcounter numbers why I posted the question. Something has to be different as before the numbers were close now they are so far off one of the counters has to be broke. Either statcounter is broke or GA is.
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