Google Analytics (Now FREE) - Formerly Urchin

Watch out man.............

 

I wonder how scalable Urchin is... maybe Google is scrambling to Google-ize the product to handle millions of sites, after they saw yesterday's mad rush.

 

Whatever the case is, they really dropped the ball....BIG TIME!

(that is if I have lost yesterday's and today's data)

Hopefully the code also has to match the URL of the originating site. Because that account # is visible when you do a view source.

 

Well I sure hope so! I mean, what if I was on vacation or something?

But I wouldn't be surprised if the data did get lost. Urchin On-demand has been kind of screwy since I first started using it. They billed me for one month (July) and then never again.

 

Actually, no matter if you have one Gmail account or more (I do have some 14+ accounts), they are able to track your accounts and all your sites back to your personal providers accounts. I'm sure they could map all our busyness out of a single click. it's pretty scarry. Imagine if some one links you into illegal activities. Am I paranoid or realistc?

 

Paranoid and not making much sense (to me at least).

 

I guess everyone having same problem. I was able to verify one site and it still says collecting stats where its doing it for more than 24 hours now

For other two sites, its just not able to figure out urchin code


This is very unlikely of google

 

Paranoid ofcource...and isnt making any sense to me either

 

After reading the entire thread, it seems that this is the status quo right now

 

I added the new code about five hours ago and it now says,

 

Mine has said that for about 20 hours now. No data yet

 

I think everyone's in the same boat. I've had the same success message for 27 hours with no stats.

 

If you check the Google Analytic forum it's full of people with the same complaints - everyone put in their tags over the last 36 hours and still no reports. Some people are just freaking out. It's kind of funny since it's free but everyone expects full service and status reports by the minute.

Oh well, back to paying for IndexTools in the meantime

 

it keeps saying that it cannot find the code on my home page. When i check the source code, its there right before the </head> tag like it says. I'm using a CMS and put it into the template. anyone know why its not finding it? website in sig

 

Here's something weird; for one of the sites I entered, it showed that it had validated the code and was waiting to collect data. Why is that weird you ask? Because I had not entered the tracking code to the head section of the web pages on that site yet....

Spooky stuff....

 

After 4 hours it started working.
"Analytics has been successfully installed and data is being gathered now. Your first reports will be ready within twelve hours."

I am wondering if you changed your privacy police in your site because according to tos paragraph 7 ->http://www.google.com/analytics/tos_en-US.html
"You must post a privacy policy and that policy must provide notice of your use of a cookie that collects anonymous traffic data."

 

No one has it working. We all are staring at the same message in our accounts and wasting time worrying about a free service that we can't get working.

I bet most sites don't have such a cookie policy posted, but I doubt that's the issue. Read the previous posts and check the group forum on the google analytic site. It's the same for all of us.

It's more like 1 million webmasters signed up yesterday and now Google is having a nightmare on their hands with something like a non-scalable architecture or they fear that turning on reporting analytics will kill the whole Google network. They don't even have time to post a status notice.

 

From google! One of my sites has more than 24 hours after installing urchin code, but still shows check after twelve hours :|