Strange Occurrence in Google Analytics
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Hi Guys
There's a pretty meaningful discrepancy within my GA account and I've been unable to locate a solution within Analytics or anywhere else online. Not even sure what I should be searching for in this case so thought I would post the problem here in the hope that a GA-expert will be able to advise! Apologies if it's in the wrong category of the forum...
The problem is quite simple. This image shows how my traffic looks for about this month. As you can see it shows 0 visitors from 25th->29th October...
If I change the date-range (and nothing else) to 24th -> 29th it confirms 0 traffic on these dates...
And yet - I know I received traffic on these dates. And if I change the date-range (and nothing else) to be within this range (26th->28th) it shows that I definitely did receive traffic on these dates!
How is it that changing the date-range alone can result in this discrepency? Can anyone explain this? Am I missing something embarrassingly obvious?
Some notes...
- The site was absolutely definitely up the whole time. I have 2 uptime monitors which reported nothing and my Adsense account showed the usual ad impressions, ctr and average earnings throughout.
- Corrupted code on my site or an un-linked GA account seems to be ruled out given that GA itself shows that it has tracked traffic on those dates.
- All filters are reset. I changed only the date-range each time.
There's a pretty meaningful discrepancy within my GA account and I've been unable to locate a solution within Analytics or anywhere else online. Not even sure what I should be searching for in this case so thought I would post the problem here in the hope that a GA-expert will be able to advise! Apologies if it's in the wrong category of the forum...
The problem is quite simple. This image shows how my traffic looks for about this month. As you can see it shows 0 visitors from 25th->29th October...
If I change the date-range (and nothing else) to 24th -> 29th it confirms 0 traffic on these dates...
And yet - I know I received traffic on these dates. And if I change the date-range (and nothing else) to be within this range (26th->28th) it shows that I definitely did receive traffic on these dates!
How is it that changing the date-range alone can result in this discrepency? Can anyone explain this? Am I missing something embarrassingly obvious?
Some notes...
- The site was absolutely definitely up the whole time. I have 2 uptime monitors which reported nothing and my Adsense account showed the usual ad impressions, ctr and average earnings throughout.
- Corrupted code on my site or an un-linked GA account seems to be ruled out given that GA itself shows that it has tracked traffic on those dates.
- All filters are reset. I changed only the date-range each time.
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