Scotia Systems Blog » Google Analytics http://www.scotiasystems.com/blog Web Design, SEO and IT Tips Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:18:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Google Analytics Data From 2nd November Missing http://www.scotiasystems.com/blog/google-analytics/google-analytics-data-from-2nd-november-missing/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=google-analytics-data-from-2nd-november-missing http://www.scotiasystems.com/blog/google-analytics/google-analytics-data-from-2nd-november-missing/#comments Wed, 03 Nov 2010 10:04:58 +0000 admin http://www.scotiasystems.com/blog/google-analytics/google-analytics-data-from-2nd-november-missing/

Have you checked your Google Analytics account this morning and were shocked to see zero visits to all your sites yesterday?    If so, you’re not alone!

There have been many reports from worried webmasters on Twitter reporting the same, and looking at the Google Analytics forums shows many other reports:

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Analytics/thread?tid=55125a763e29b46d&hl=en

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Analytics/thread?tid=22e2d0efe8a39935&hl=en

http://www.google.co.uk/support/forum/p/Google+Analytics/thread?tid=49df17fc4d027844&hl=en

The Google Analytics Status page shows that they’re aware of the problem and will provide an update by 6th November:

“We are continuing to investigate this issue. We will provide an update by 6 November 2010 00:00:00 UTC detailing when we expect to resolve the problem.

Starting Oct 25th, a 24hr delay with processing in sampled reports was identified in some accounts. No data has been lost and a fix is in progress.”

 

Update : Looks like the problem has been resolved

]]> http://www.scotiasystems.com/blog/google-analytics/google-analytics-data-from-2nd-november-missing/feed/ 0 Google Releases Asynchronous Analytics Tracking http://www.scotiasystems.com/blog/google-analytics/google-releases-asynchronous-analytics-tracking/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=google-releases-asynchronous-analytics-tracking http://www.scotiasystems.com/blog/google-analytics/google-releases-asynchronous-analytics-tracking/#comments Thu, 20 May 2010 10:27:50 +0000 admin http://www.scotiasystems.com/blog/google-analytics/google-releases-asynchronous-analytics-tracking/

 

Last week Google announced that the asynchronous tracking tag which has been in beta testing is now officially available.

Yesterday they updated the Google Analytics interface to support this new style tag when you’re adding tracking to a new website.

This should bring asynchronous tracking to many more sites – improving both results and page loading speed.

You can find further details and instructions on setting up the new tracking code at the Google Analytics Blog

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Wow – didn’t see that one coming!

Google have announced today that they’re planning a browser opt-out for users to block being tracked by Google Analytics. Unfortunately they didn’t really give much away, such as how they’re going to promote this, so it’s difficult to see what impact this may have on statistics.

If the opt out becomes widespread it will definitely harm the value of implementing Analytics.   Maybe log based analytics will become more prominent?

Here’s the announcement from Google.

]]> http://www.scotiasystems.com/blog/google-analytics/google-to-allow-users-to-opt-out-of-analytics-tracking/feed/ 0 Avinash Kaushik Discussing Analytics at SES 2010 http://www.scotiasystems.com/blog/google-analytics/avinash-kaushik-discussing-analytics-at-ses-2010/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=avinash-kaushik-discussing-analytics-at-ses-2010 http://www.scotiasystems.com/blog/google-analytics/avinash-kaushik-discussing-analytics-at-ses-2010/#comments Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:36:20 +0000 admin http://www.scotiasystems.com/blog/?p=388

Here’s another superb video showing Avinash Kaushik from Google discussing Analytics at SES London 2010.

Only Avinash could bring such humour and passion to the subject of Analytics!   His example of using analytics to persuade his wife that she should let him blog at midnight instead of going to bed is classic!

Favorite quote “These are keywords I need to make love to because they make me so much money”!

Avinash Kaushik – Be Awesome: Ideas for Approaching Search Analytics Differently @ SES London 2010 from SEOgroup on Vimeo.

Here’s a link to the excellent Juice tool for analytics mentioned in the video.

Juice Analytics

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Just had a problem adding the tracking code for a website under google analytics.    The default page for the website is “home.html” however it appears google wasn’t happy with this.    The solution was to modify the profile for the website in Analytics and manually add the page  as the “default page” so that google had the full path.

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