Reaction Towards Google Killing Google Analytics 3 For Google Analytics 4
So Google is doing away with Google Analytics 3, aka Universal Analytics and you will all have to switch to Google Analytics 4, aka GA 4. Universal Analytics properties will stop processing new hits on July 1, 2023. That means you need to set up GA 4 …
Google Analytics Bug Results In Unrecoverable Data Loss On October 18th
Google Analytics had a bug that resulted in about an hour of lost data on October 18th. That data is unrecoverable and you should note, maybe with an annotation, that there was a glitch resulting in less data being collected by Google Analytics.
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Google Analytics Now Tracks Google News Showcase Discover Traffic
It seems like Google Analytics is now showing some of Google Discover traffic, likely from the Google News Showcase. If you check your acquisition, source and medium traffic, you may see [newsshowcase / discover] in the list.
December 16th Google Analytics Bug Not Fixed Yet
Remember the bug we helped uncover with Google Analytics that occurred on December 16, 2019? Well, it is still not fixed and probably won’t be fixed for weeks. Google posted an update saying “We have revised our estimated reprocessing timelines for De…
Google Analytics Showing Some New Google Image Search Referrer Data
A month ago, Google announced they are changing the referrer URL for Google Image search so you can better track image search from Google Images traffic to your site. Google Analytics announced how that will appear in Google Analytics and I do see som…
Google Analytics Signals – Cross Device Capabilities
Google is beta testing a new Google Analytics feature named Google Signals. It lets you track and report on your visitors across devices.
Google Analytics Better Tracks AMP Pages With AMP Client ID API
Since many of the complaints last year around how AMP and Google Analytics don’t really work well together…
Google Analytics Adds Ask Intelligence; Ask Google Analytics Questions & Get Answers
Google announced yesterday a major step in their Google Analytics platform. The ability to simply ask it a question about your web site data and it comes back with a report. This feature is called Ask Analytics Intelligence…
Google Analytics Tests New Home Dashboard View?
Maulik Panchal shared a screen shot with me on Twitter of a new “Home” feature in Google Analytics. Above the main reports…
Google Analytics Improves AMP Tracking Support
Google Analytics announced they are going to be “rolling out an enhancement that will give you an even more accurate understanding of how people are engaging with your business across AMP and non-AMP pages of your website…
Google Quickly Fixed The AMP Analytics Bug
Yesterday, those publishers and webmasters who deployed AMP on their sites were freaking out that Google stopped sending traffic to AMP pages…
Google AMP Likely Will Inflate Your Traffic Metrics, Google Is Working On Fix
Christian Oliveira has documented an issue with using Google AMP and how it will likely inflate your Google Analytics and other analytics metrics. In fact, it can report four-times more traffic than is real…
Google Analytics Starts Rolling Out New User Interface
Last week, I personally saw my Google Analytics user interface flip from the old user interface to the new one they announced was coming back in October. I then started getting emails and tweets…
Google Home Traffic Marked As Direct Traffic By Google Analytics
As many of you know, when you ask your Google Home a query and it responds, it puts the answer box into your Google Home app under the “related to your activity” cards section…
Google Analytics Missing Traffic Bug For Some Webmasters?
Late last week, I saw some webmasters begin to complain about missing traffic data in Google Analytics. There is a more comprehensive thread in the Google AdWords Help forums and on Twitter…
Google Analytics Actively Working On Spam Issue
Since 2015, we have been reporting about referrer spam issues within Google Analytics. It got a little better but I think for the most part…
Google Analytics Real Time Not Working For Some
Since last night, some have been sporadically complaining that the Google Analytics Real Time reports are not loading. Instead they are getting an error that reads “resource is not available, please try again later…
Not Provided Count Hits Over 96% Since Google’s HSTS Switch
Earlier this month, Google went HSTS with Google.com, which means it is hard to get to a non-HTTPS version of Google search…
Google Analytics Public Demo Account Available To All
Google announced yesterday that they are giving anyone and everyone with a Google account access to a public demo Google Analytics account with solid and useful data, set up correctly…
Is The New Google Analytics Design Rolling Out Now?
A couple weeks ago, we reported that some users were seeing the new Google Analytics design. It was a cleaner look as we described back then.
Well, now not only am I seeing more and more users reporting this…