I have a serious issue with Google Analytics on my website. My issue is that I usually get more visits than pages views, and I don't understand how it's possible and what's wrong. I'm using Google Analytics for www.greenunivers.com. I have many profiles (which integrates filters) : one by subdirectory. For example I have a filter "forum" to check trafic from www.greenunivers.com/f/, a filter "tags" to check trafic from www.greenunivers.com/tag/... Here is an example The 2009 May 14th The entire greenunivers.com : 1670 visits / 4202 pages views. Trafic on the "Tags" profile, which is supposed to integrate only the trafic on www.greenunivers.com/tags/ (including www.greenunivers.com/tags/xxx/, www.greenunivers.com/tags/yyy/) : 272 visits / 153 pages views. The filter I use on this profile is : Type "Include only trafic to a subdirectory". And the subdirectory field is : "^/tag/". Can someone tell me what's wrong with my Google Analytics and how to fix it ? I even don't know if the trafic on the entire website is correct ! Regards, _______________________ Here is the tagging I use (at the bottom of each page) : <script type="text/javascript"> var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); </script> <script type="text/javascript"> try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-4985930-1"); pageTracker._initData(); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}</script> If you go on the website now, you'll see that the first par (the first <script>xxx</script) is now at the top of the page. That's just a test I've done 2 days ago to figure out if it changes anything : it doesn't. Note that some of my sections don't have the pageTracker._initData(); line : it doesn't change anything.
We were seeing a similar issue on a site that I manage earlier this week. Since it seems next to impossible that visits would be higher than page views, I contacted Google, but have yet to hear back. I wonder if this is a recent bug.