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Today (Sunday 7/15) Google Analytics shows multiple hours where there is essentially no traffic for my site. My Google Adsense stats seem to show a loss of traffic but not as great as Analytics shows, although it is a little hard to tell since Adsense only updates stats and does not list them hour by hour.
My monitoring service for my hosting/website has not reported any server down time.
Is it possible that Google Analytics is wrong or experiencing some problem and that's why my website stats seem so strange today?
Google can't pass gas without making the home page around here.
Too true. What does that say about us?
And to think, people use to complain about MS controlling everything.
Serious question - What happens to all our sites if someone decides to put malicious code in the analytics script?
Marshall
Besides... the darkest place is under the candle.
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same comment with SEO turned off: Oh did you mean your competition? Now that's wise. Put .htaccess on awstats.
Though you already have.
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The question is... are there really people who rely on any single stat program?
I know *I* don't, that's for sure.
I've got two on the server-side and at least one off-server.
When something's wrong, a little checking around does the trick of putting out the alarm.
Guess I should have spent more time working on my new analytics program..
Not to mention the fact that Google Analytics only tracks traffic that uses Javascript so humans with js disabled and the run of the mill bot traffic is completely off the radar.
I use GA because it does do some interesting things but I also take it with a grain of salt for everything it misses and don't really care when freebies fall apart as they'll fix it when they get around to it, or they won't and I'll move on to use something else.
I'm paying it with data. ;)
I don't think most people are upset, I think they mainly just wanted to verify that the problem is with Analytics and not with their own site.
When you suddenly see your site's stats dive to zero, a part of you does wonder if the visitors have stopped coming... ;-)
I don't think most people are upset, I think they mainly just wanted to verify that the problem is with Analytics and not with their own site.
Interesting as I must not be familiar with the bottom of the barrel hosting accounts as all the accounts on my server have basic stats built into the control panel.
Hmmmm....
Well, Analytics was originally intended to follow the progress of Adwords campaigns rather than just provide raw stats.
I hear what you're saying, but I suppose people wanted extra assurance that it was just analytics going wrong.
We are starting to update reporting in all Google Analytics accounts affected by the delay. As of 5pm PST this evening, some users will start to see part or all of the data from the period between Saturday and now appear in reports. We expect updates for all accounts to continue through Monday night into tomorrow and will update this blog when reporting is fully restored.
It's not reassuring to hear them say no data was lost, just a reporting delay, and that everything is now fully updated now:
"Report data has been fully updated and is now current again. We apologize for any inconvenience the temporary delay caused and will have less reporting delays in the future." - Analytics blog, July 30th.
