Hi all, New user, long time reader. I've got some weird examples of what i feel like Analytics could be missing something. I've basically been posting a few links of twitter today, and i've watched on bit.ly the counts on each of the say 5 links i've got go to around 100 or so and seeing a few things move up on Reddit too. My issue is whenever i refresh Analytics, it just goes up by 2 or 3 visitors, not by like... the actual amount that other sites are showing i should be getting. Is this something anyone else has encountered? Any advice?
As a quick example, i can see right now people talking about and voting up my post on Reddit, yet when i refresh Analytics i get nothing, it just stays the same on uniques, maybe goes up by 1 or 2 on page views. It's definitely not just the same people refreshing the page over and over.
GA isn't a real time tracker. Wait 24 hours to see the day's results. Also, expect smaller numbers than bit.ly tells you - twitter gets lots of hits from bots, most of these get filtered out in GA.