Comments on: Google Analytics – First Impressions

By: Netwalker

Netwalker — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 18:44:28 +0000

Chris

Thanks for the help, but it still isn’t working. Google it’s trying to find the code on the frontpage of the domain, but in there I have one CMS and on the subdirectory I have another one.

On the page to create a new profile, it’s an example “stores.website.com/apparel”. But when I enter the domain with the subdirectory I get a “invalid input” message.

I think I will have to wait a little bit more for that one.

Meanwhile, I can see the first report of other blog, and I think it will be very useful. Shame that you have to wait so much time to see the reports, internet moves much more faster than 12 hours. Maybe the people that have Adsense would like to have more continuos reports, to see exactly how a change affects the site.

By: Sam Moorhouse

Sam Moorhouse — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 15:42:56 +0000

I think you’re quite right – it’s good that we’re able to take advantage of the US Downtime!
Don’t be too hard on Google – this is a new tool, and there was a massive rush on Tuesday to sign up – did you see it hit del.icio.us?! Once things settle down (and Google up the server power!) I think things will speed right up.

I’ve got my list of feature requests ready and waiting!

By: Julien Marchand

Julien Marchand — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 13:54:39 +0000

It’s ALIVE! :-D

By: Tim Flight

Tim Flight — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 13:29:23 +0000

Anyone who is still waiting for stats and is using the Safari browser, note the following FAQ from the Google Analytics Help Center:

“reports are not viewable on Safari browsers on Mac OS X. Try accessing your account with Firefox, Netscape, or Mozilla”

Even though my account said “Still waiting for data” and Safari showed nothing, Firefox was happy to display data.

By: My Work from Home Online Business » Google Analytics - FREE Website Analytics Service For All

Wed, 16 Nov 2005 11:42:21 +0000

[...] Darren Rowse from ProBlogger.com has also experienced some major delays with stats getting reported. However, after 48 hours the stats started to roll in. [...]

By: themaxx.ca

themaxx.ca — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 05:58:26 +0000

Well Darren, you’re lucky.. I’m still “Waiting for data”

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 05:45:26 +0000

And it’s finally working….at last…

By: themaxx.ca

themaxx.ca — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 02:53:15 +0000

The funy thing is how good some of the reviews are but no one has yet been able it use it! LOL Someone commented that they might have not expected to generate so much trafic.. well com’on… They knew everyone would register to get something expensive for free!

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 00:15:21 +0000

I find it pretty bizarre that a company with the influence and size of Google didn’t anticipate that there would be a lot of sign ups for a free service for website publishers (of whom they should have a pretty good idea of the numbers of :-)

I guess you get what you pay for and it’s looking at this stage that that is a package that contains nothing useful after coming up for 48 hours.

By: Mark Daoust

Mark Daoust — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 00:02:50 +0000

I talked to one of the guys over at Analytics today (here at PubCon, Vegas). He said that they are rolling out some fixes for the delays today, although he still anticipates some problems. Evidently they were not ready for the huge number of signups they received…

By: Swanie

Swanie — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 22:02:22 +0000

For about 12+ hrs, it just showed it couldn’t detect any working code. So I had to make sure the code & where I placed it was right. But still it says 12 more hrs to see the first report. I hope it doesn’t take that long later on, since there are some stats analysis programs a lot faster than this. We shall see.

By: Carlos Gomes

Carlos Gomes — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 15:13:50 +0000

It looks wonderful but +24h passed and still waiting for data to create the first report, does anyone already have a working report?

By: Julien Marchand

Julien Marchand — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 14:49:16 +0000

I managed to sign up yesterday and today the site is lightning fast (at least for me.) However, I still have no results, as for pretty much everyone here.

But it’s a step towards teh bright side… :)

By: Jeremy Wright

Jeremy Wright — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:25:36 +0000

24 hours here and no results.

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:00:34 +0000

Still no results – 32.5 hours and counting….

By: pcunix

pcunix — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 10:20:52 +0000

I was hoping that this would be fixed this morning, but it isn’t: all of my sites still say “Waiting for data – check status”. Clicking “Check Status” confirms that all is installed correctly, but the front page still insists that “Tracking has not been validated or added to one or more of your Website Profiles. Report data is not being gathered for one or more of your Website Profiles.”

We probably just need to leave this alone for a day or two and see what happens.

By: Phillip Molly Malone

Phillip Molly Malone — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 09:39:25 +0000

Hey Darren,
Any results yet? I haven’t seen anything yet but I am not sure if that is my not 100% correct install (seeings as I can’t put it in the head of my page).
Molly

By: Brad

Brad — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 05:05:02 +0000

Boy did I screw up. I got in a hurry and between that and the frustration of the site problems, I didn’t install the tracking code Now I guess I’ll have to wait until late tomorrow to se any results.

By: hagrin

hagrin — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 03:51:40 +0000

Google Analytics is just another victim of Google’s own popularity.

Google must struggle with effectively testing heavy load on new applications since mirroring their production enviroment probably isn’t the easiest task. Google is such a great company and I am sure that they already do load testing, but it seems they need to refine their load testing for new products.

By: @@ron

@@ron — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 03:17:23 +0000

Google promised that the report can be shown within 12 hrs, but i doubt that, because it is 17hrs after i applied for GAnalytics, i still cannot get through my first report.