I'm So Pissed at GoogleAnalytics!!

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A month or so back I posted on here about how I knew I was getting at least a couple visitors a day, but googleanalytics wasn't reading them. I was getting good traffic, and GA read it, but then it just slowly, within a couple of days, dropped right off and I've been flatlined for about a month and a half.

But I knew I was getting traffic. I have an plugin on my site that tells me when somebody is on my site, and occasionaly I would go on it and it would show another user. I also know of some friends that went on the site and they told me how they liked it.

After mentioning this, somebody on here told me that GA might not register just a couple of people, that I might need more traffic to make them start showing stats.

Well yesterday I did some things to get traffic with social book marking, and article submissions, and last night at 8:46pm, I had 26 visitors on my site at the same time, This doesn't mean for the day, but just at that one moment, that was the most amount of visitors I had on my site at any time since the sites' been up. A record for my site, and for me as an internet marketer. GA still reads it as a flatline, that I had no traffic.

Whats up with this, why did GA just slowly dwindle away, and stop tracking my site. Why did I have 26 visitors last night, and not one of them was shown on GA. I noticed this had happened before with other sites of mine. But they were junk sites I didn't like, so I got rid of them.

The code is good, everything is good. GA just decided to slowly stop showing traffic until now it is flatlined and it doesn't seem to show any indication of starting to show traffic stats anymore.

Any ideas would be great. Should I reinstall the code or something? BUt if I do, will this just happen again to me?
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  • Profile picture of the author Talltom1
    Yup, know how you feel. Google Analytics requires you to place a certain piece of code in the webpages that you're tracking.

    What's happened to me, is that I'll make changes to the webpage while offline, and when I'm finished, I'll upload the revised page.

    I've had a number of times, where the 'revised' page no longer contained the google code.

    So you might want to check...just sayin'.

    Talltom
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    • Profile picture of the author jkovats
      Does site verification have anything to do with it or is that just for Webmaster Tools?
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  • Profile picture of the author TheRichJerksNet
    Why worry about it ? Google stats are not correct anyways so why waste your time. This is valued time you could spend on building more backlinks..

    If you want to monitor traffic then use AWSTATS that comes with cpanel or install this one - Piwik - Web analytics - Open source

    I would not waste all that time with google.. Their stats also slow your site down and many times causes people to leave waiting for it to load..

    According to Akamai/Forrester Consulting which conducted a recent study, you have 2 seconds (Yes that is TWO seconds) for a visitor to decide to wait for your site to load or not. Many times they do not wait.

    So why put all that extra crap on your site forcing it to load slower and costing you visitors and sales ....

    James
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    • Profile picture of the author Thorick
      Originally Posted by TheRichJerksNet View Post

      Why worry about it ? Google stats are not correct anyways so why waste your time. This is valued time you could spend on building more backlinks..

      If you want to monitor traffic then use AWSTATS that comes with cpanel or install this one - Piwik - Web analytics - Open source

      I would not waste all that time with google.. Their stats also slow your site down and many times causes people to leave waiting for it to load..

      According to Akamai/Forrester Consulting which conducted a recent study, you have 2 seconds (Yes that is TWO seconds) for a visitor to decide to wait for your site to load or not. Many times they do not wait.

      So why put all that extra crap on your site forcing it to load slower and costing you visitors and sales ....

      James
      Thanks, I'll look more into this. I've never had to many problems with google before, but maybe another program may be worth looking at.
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    • Originally Posted by TheRichJerksNet View Post


      According to Akamai/Forrester Consulting which conducted a recent study, you have 2 seconds (Yes that is TWO seconds) for a visitor to decide to wait for your site to load or not. Many times they do not wait.

      So why put all that extra crap on your site forcing it to load slower and costing you visitors and sales ....

      James
      Very interesting!!!!! I haven't seen this stat before.
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  • Profile picture of the author schofieldml
    Thorick,

    Since you said you have a plugin tracking visitors, I assume you are using a CMS. I have built websites in the three major CMS's (Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal) and have never had this problem. For each website I have either added the Tracking code manually to the footer or used a plugin.

    A simple way to check if your Google Analytics code is installed properly is to check the page source code. You can do this by Pressing Cntrl U in Firefox or right clicking in Internet Explorer and selecting page source. You should see a bunch of code in the window that pops up. Towards the bottom of the page , you should see the Google Analytics code if it is properly installed.

    If you don't then Google Analytics is not properly install. If it is not, and you are using a CMS, I can help you install it if you want. Just send me a message and I can do it for you, it will only take two minutes. Or if you are using Wordpress use this plugin:

    Ultimate Google Analytics Wordpress Plugin

    Anyways, there is something wrong in the way you have it installed I am sure of it. Reinstall it or get someone to do it for you.

    Mike
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    • Profile picture of the author Thorick
      Originally Posted by schofieldml View Post

      Thorick,

      Since you said you have a plugin tracking visitors, I assume you are using a CMS. I have built websites in the three major CMS's (Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal) and have never had this problem. For each website I have either added the Tracking code manually to the footer or used a plugin.

      A simple way to check if your Google Analytics code is installed properly is to check the page source code. You can do this by Pressing Cntrl U in Firefox or right clicking in Internet Explorer and selecting page source. You should see a bunch of code in the window that pops up. Towards the bottom of the page , you should see the Google Analytics code if it is properly installed.

      If you don't then Google Analytics is not properly install. If it is not, and you are using a CMS, I can help you install it if you want. Just send me a message and I can do it for you, it will only take two minutes. Or if you are using Wordpress use this plugin:

      Ultimate Google Analytics Wordpress Plugin

      Anyways, there is something wrong in the way you have it installed I am sure of it. Reinstall it or get someone to do it for you.

      Mike
      I am using Wordpress, and the google analytics plugin. What I don't understand is how it was working, then my traffic slowly dwindled to zero, well I have proof from other sources that it hasn't and in fact has jumped. But I will check the code again, and give your plugin I try. Thanks for the help, I'll take a look more into this.
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  • Profile picture of the author Goatboy
    Google shows mine even if I only have 1 visitor. I would agree with the suggestions that you need to check to see that both the verification and tracing codes are still present. Otherwise, Analytics won't work.
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    • Profile picture of the author reapr
      I am not too impressed with GA right now I am sure thier stats they show are much lower than what I actually get. I have noticed this using other plugins and awstats.

      Even more amazing they use those stats to their advantage at least they could provide a little more accuracy.

      I am currently looking for a better solution from a better provider ... GA just does not have it.
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    • Profile picture of the author reapr
      I am not too impressed with GA right now I am sure thier stats they show are much lower than what I actually get. I have noticed this using other plugins and awstats.

      Even more amazing they use those stats to their advantage at least they could provide a little more accuracy. If I was paying for this service I would have dumped it a long time ago.
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  • Profile picture of the author Thorick
    Haha, thanks for the help, I got it working again. I used wordpress, and the googleanalytics plugin. I guess when I updated the plugin it reset my account google account number to all 0's. I pasted in my account number and now it's working again. I feel so dumb now, but I guess it happens to the best of us.

    Thanks for all the help.
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