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Quick Question: Does Google Analytics work retroactively?

by James Liberty
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I'm trying to sell a website on Flippa and I'm being asked to add Google Analytics to my website. That said, if I add the code to my website, is it going to be able to post my traffic stats to Flippa from previous months? Or will Google Analytics only post my stats to Flippa going forward, while showing zero traffic for last month?
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  • Profile picture of the author Janice Sperry
    No. GA will only start collecting data (for you) after you insert the code to your website.
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    • Profile picture of the author James Liberty
      Originally Posted by Janice Sperry View Post

      No. GA will only start collecting data (for you) after you insert the code to your website.
      Thanks. That's somewhat crazy to me. I added Analytics because Flippa told me it used Analytics to verify traffic. So I add Analytics to my Flippa listing... and then it shows that my website has only had two visitors in its history. Not exactly the best system for sellers.
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      • Profile picture of the author DubDubDubDot
        Originally Posted by James Liberty View Post

        Thanks. That's somewhat crazy to me. I added Analytics because Flippa told me it used Analytics to verify traffic. So I add Analytics to my Flippa listing... and then it shows that my website has only had two visitors in its history. Not exactly the best system for sellers.
        There is no system out there that is going to magically come up with traffic data that was never being logged in the first place.
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      • Profile picture of the author marguerite
        Originally Posted by James Liberty View Post

        Thanks. That's somewhat crazy to me. I added Analytics because Flippa told me it used Analytics to verify traffic. So I add Analytics to my Flippa listing... and then it shows that my website has only had two visitors in its history. Not exactly the best system for sellers.


        Yes but if you are consistently getting traffic it will show it. You just need to tell your prospective buyers that you only recently installed google analytics, they should understand. If you were tracking traffic with some other counter or analytics package you can mention that too.
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  • Profile picture of the author Miguelito203
    Originally Posted by James Liberty View Post

    I'm trying to sell a website on Flippa and I'm being asked to add Google Analytics to my website. That said, if I add the code to my website, is it going to be able to post my traffic stats to Flippa from previous months? Or will Google Analytics only post my stats to Flippa going forward, while showing zero traffic for last month?
    As far as I know, it works from the time you install it. Well, it also says it can take a day for the tracking to start showing up.

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  • Profile picture of the author DubDubDubDot
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  • Profile picture of the author ChrisBa
    No, it worke off the code you place
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  • Profile picture of the author Delboy Trotter
    If you add your analytic email to flippa it will show all the months where your website had that code in it.
    let's say on jan 1 you added analytics to your website and you decided to list your website on flippa on 1 april and added you analytics account there, it will show analytics from january to 1 april
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  • Profile picture of the author GamerZag
    I'm sure you're joking with your question, but no, it will not.

    However, you CAN get statistics by looking at your web server's logfile. There are plenty of free/trial web statistic programs out there to give you nearly the same information as Google Analytics.
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  • Profile picture of the author totalprocessing.net
    No, Google doesn't have anything to collect until you add the code
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  • Profile picture of the author lemonseltzer
    Originally Posted by James Liberty View Post

    I'm trying to sell a website on Flippa and I'm being asked to add Google Analytics to my website. That said, if I add the code to my website, is it going to be able to post my traffic stats to Flippa from previous months? Or will Google Analytics only post my stats to Flippa going forward, while showing zero traffic for last month?
    Oh sweet baby Jesus.
    You actually weren't asking a joke question.
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