Google Analytics doesn't track all traffic?

I heard that sometimes Google Analytics only tracks visits of 30 seconds+, is it true?

Shouldn't analytics track all visitors as soon as they land on the site?

 

Sounds very untrue.

 

Yes you are right I felt that google always tracked that person who stayed at page more than 10-30 sec.

 

how it is possible...can you give some details regarding this?may be you are talking about proxy server..please give some more detail.

 

Complete rubbish - 30 seconds is a long time to look at a web page. It does track all visitors as soon as they call up the code. The only circumstances in which this wouldn't correlate to 'as soon as they land on the site' would be if you had an extremely slow loading site and the GA code placed at the bottom of the page or somewhere else that means people leave the site before the page has fully loaded. In which case, the problem is with the site, not GA.

 

I agree with you Astral....Google tracks all visitor

 

google analytic is the best

 

I think we should pay attention on it.

 

Analytics does track all visitors but they track the time on site by tracking the time between the first and last pageview. Therefore if a visitor bounces (ie, only visits one page) they cannot tracking the time between first and last pageview as there is only 1 pageview. This causes the time on site data to be recorded as 0:00.

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As far as I know, there is no time limit for a visitor to get tracked by GA.

 

Google webmaster tool is best who show all traffic sources.

 

Where did you get that idea from? GWT is for monitoring your keywords, bot crawling etc...Analytics is by far the best tool for monitoring traffic sources.

 

I would rather expect them not to track very short visits, say less then 1 sec - when the user clicks back before analytics code has a chance to load

 

You can use settimeout function in javascript to load Analytics tracking code after certain amount of time

 

that is false, but what you should all know is NO analytics is 100% accurate, although I believe Google Analytics is the most accurate.

 

yes, this is true that many time Google Analytic not track all visitor's or Second, thing is that it's not provides real time tracking...........................

 

If google does not track all visitor how google analytics calculate bounce rate? lol I think GA track each and every visitors.

 

If you are not satisfied with GA try some paid programs.

 

Yes, It can be. Because i have some data for prove it. A good searches keywords ranked in top 10 for my site but analytic is not giving any result on this keywords that means google analytic have some trouble with new problem.

An other example- I have one solicitor site and it performed maximum no. keywords in top ten(around 350 keywords) but in google analytic is showing only 30 keywords. It is surprising for me. So I think, It can be possible that google analytic only tracks visit of 30+sec...

 

GA attempts to record all visits. That's how they calculate the bounce rate.

However, I see a lot of traffic that Google doesn't record on my site. The site is not slow but I think there are theme issues. A Wordpress site. Recently i changed the plugin that does the tracking and things improved much. It still is not right though.

If I go to WP stats I see significantly higher numbers.

So the problem is my site. Its not that google is not recording the visits. I am hesitant to use the word track because unless they click on something there's not really an tracking.