Google Analytics is Punishing Me !!!

GA has been testing a new version for a while now, and they have been switching accounts over (may be done by now afaik). One thing that might help -- near the bottom in the left hand column is an option "Find Your Old Reports in the New Interface".

The new interface does let you slice and dice the data in some different ways, and as you know - if you torture the data long enough you can get it to say anything!

Put your cursor to the far left of your screen until it becomes a horizontal double-arrow, and then click. Voila, the left-hand navigation will reappear!

Suzanne

Your not alone Elmar,had the same thing,a similar problem for me is happening on Facebook,I just need to sit down and work it out .

Have you been switched to the new version?

Is there a tab along the top called "Standard Reporting"? Click that and then the Audience, Traffic Sources, Content etc are along the left hand side.

James

Hmm.. strange. Have you got a screenshot so we can see where it might be?

Yeah... "codebotics" makes a good point. If you have a screenshot, that would help wonders. It's a little difficult to know what your talking about exactly without seeing the problem. Snap a picture for us!

Here is the screen shot

2012-04-23_2119 - ElmarAga's library

Thats the whole screenshot of my desktop with browser maximized. There is nothing on the sides.

That's really strange, the sidebar's definitely not minimised else you would be able to see a small bar on the left. Have you tried clearing your browsers cache etc?

I blieve GA has also added some authorship data options too as of lately. Still, I like to use GA as part of a whole metric approach.

Hi Elmar,

I found the solution to this problem (over which I have been pulling my hair out). In my particular set of circumstances anyway.

I know it's not the collapsible sidebar as SuzanneH points out because with this problem, the sidebar often disappears too.

I had exactly this problem and tested different browsers, screens, computers, routers etc.

I eventually identified it was being caused by the avast! WebRep add-in which I had enabled in Firefox and hadn't realised I also had it in IE (otherwise I would have got to the solution faster). I disabled it, re-started Firefox, logged in to Google Analytics again to find the problem had disappeared. I then did the same in reverse i.e. re-enabled it, re-started browser and logged into Analytics to find the problem had returned. Because this has been such a recurrent, intermittent and time-consuming problem, I repeated this test 6 times in Firefox and 6 times in IE with 100% consistent results.

So I would recommend disabling all add-ins. If that works, then re-enable them one by one to try and identify the culprit.

Hope that helps.