What the hell? Google Analytics

Hey guys,

Something weird is going on... my google analytics account is screwed up.

My traffic and visitors have not changed, but it appears most of my traffic has turned into DIRECT TRAFFIC... and I have lost almost all of my Search Engine Referrals...

This is obviously NOT the case, rather for some reason SE traffic is converting into a direct traffic status.. anyone have any ideas? Is it happening to anyone else? Maybe something I did?

Thanks!

 

Well I never faced this type of problem. As far as i am concerned Google analytics is working properly.

 

Doing just fine here. Try some other traffic counter tools like from statcounter.

 

Google analytics is not a very good trackers ,if the javascript is disabled then it can't track those visitors

 

Yes, use statcounter as a backup.
It always gives the right informations.

 

No problems here, I would suggest playing around with the tracking code or simply searching for your own website and clicking on it to test.

 

I had a similar case. But it was not due to Analytic problem. It happened when I redirected all request from my domain to index.cgi by using .htaccess. Meaning if a user type in www.mydomain.com it will display www.mydomain.com/index.cgi. But this sometime doesn't work for my hosting (don't know why), so to ensure that it always refer to index.cgi, I created another index.html which consist of a redirect script that will end up redirecting to index.cgi.

So when a visitor comes directly to index.cgi it can be traced by Analytic, but if he comes from index.html then all referer are lost. This on the other hand will be identified as direct traffic.

Hope that helps..

 

I use Awstats ( i got it with my cPanel control panel ) for getting all traffic details, its more accurate for me

 

Analytics really sucks. It is just a fad.

I have used this for 10 years and it is far better:

http://www.xav.com/scripts/axs/

 

Does your traffic drop suddenly ?

 

Exactly, we can choose other option statcounter and Always Double Check stat Reports.


Eric

 

mmm..I am trying to nail it down... I recently swithched hosts.... and did a NAME SERVER change. For the first few days analytics reported correctly, and I have asked transfer of my domain name. So I am curious if that could at all be factor. I will watch it for a few days and see what happens. It just sucks not being able to see what keywords people are using for all my visits..I can get a good guess because of the pages they visit however.

 

I am in Australia and my analytics is playing up today as well. Seems to be very delayed and i could possibly be experiencing the same with referring sites being counted as direct traffic.

Who knows..

 

I never have used Google Analytics? Is it worth a try? since some people seem to face problems with it..

 

No problem here. Analytics rock.

 

Its not just stat counter, we tell google about our site.

 

my stats are not shown for about 24 hours already..

i am just curious as well...

it has been working properly for so long... any updates will be highly appreciated.

 

but goal conversion and adwords could be useful, awstats is good for analysing the resources most of the time...

but yes, i use that too.

 

For the past few days, I am experiencing lot of problems with google analytics. Especially the problem where analytics is not updating and showing less traffic compared to normal days. I am not sure what the reason is.

 

Hi,

Like other DP Member i will also suggest u to Please use Statcounter for backup.
But Google Analytics is best.

Thanks