View topic - Weirdness in Google Analytics?

[Baa]

I've had GA running for a long time but in the past month it's been showing some pretty weird results.

At first I thought it was because I'd upgraded one site but it's showing similar results for a site I have not upgraded.

Basically it's not recording properly on either site, does anyone have any idea why this is happening please? I can't find any answers on the ZC forum.

[DJBenz]

In what way weird? I ask because I have it installed for a Joomla site and the daily uniques has dropped sharply through GA, whereas AWStats is reporting no such drop.

[Baa]

There's a major drop in the uniques 98% for one. Bounce rate (normally 23-28%) is 11%, conversions 0% whereas normally 5-7% etc, everything is pretty much recording 0.

There's been no similar remarkable data with AWStats and just the sales from the sites prove GA completely wrong.

[DJW]

I have found analytics to be wrong on so many levels recently.

One of the biggest problems seem to be position I a pm'd a member on here who was advertising a site for sale using analytic data which was incorrect.

Darryl

[Baa]

Sorry, may I ask what you mean by "position" please?

[DJW]

Sorry baa,

So much flying around my head lately.

Nothing to do with the analytic side of things but in webmaster tools.

Darryl

[Baa]

Ahh right! Thanks