Google Analytics Flatline
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According to Google Analytics I no longer exist. Well, more accurately nobody else knows that I exist. Want proof? Look at this chart...instant death yesterday!
I got an email from Tony early this morning. "Google Analytics seems to have gone dead for me. Are you still getting activity?" Nope, was my simple reply. I noticed the flat line also, but figured it wasn't anything outside of my own site. It appears to be a big problem though. Tony is reporting this on his site too, he inspired me to put my "time of death" graph up.
The blogosphere is starting to take notice. Check out Technorati and even Google's own blog search!
Google! Help us! We rely on analytics, if nothing else than to make us wonder who in the heck all those little dots are in Europe that read our blogs. Restore Analytics!
UPDATE: Somebody with the screen name of "AnalyticsPro" wrote this on a Google groups thread (I'm presuming (s)he actually works for Google):
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According to Google Analytics I no longer exist. Well, more accurately nobody else knows that I exist. Want proof? Look at this chart...instant death yesterday!
I got an email from Tony early this morning. "Google Analytics seems to have gone dead for me. Are you still getting activity?" Nope, was my simple reply. I noticed the flat line also, but figured it wasn't anything outside of my own site. It appears to be a big problem though. Tony is reporting this on his site too, he inspired me to put my "time of death" graph up.
The blogosphere is starting to take notice. Check out Technorati and even Google's own blog search!
Google! Help us! We rely on analytics, if nothing else than to make us wonder who in the heck all those little dots are in Europe that read our blogs. Restore Analytics!
UPDATE: Somebody with the screen name of "AnalyticsPro" wrote this on a Google groups thread (I'm presuming (s)he actually works for Google):
Hi all, Thank you for your posts. We appreciate the urgency of receiving timely report data and are aware of the slight reporting delay. Report data normally takes 24 hours to process, and can sometimes take longer, so we appreciate your patience as we work on this. We expect updates to be resolved quickly. We apologize for any inconvenience and thank you for your patience. AnalyticsPro
UPDATE II: TechCrunch puts together a pretty short and good summary of the events of the day for Google. It appears that things are back up and running now.
Gee Matt too bad you don’t read the Oregonian—there was an article on Al Gore and his techie connections. Evidently he is on the Google board—so I say “you can blame it on Al Gore”. :-)
Correction: Gore is an advisor to Google, not the board. He is on the Apple board—for all you IPOD users…..
Seriously? That’s too good. I didn’t realize that. Okay, I’ll blame the Google Analytics problem on Gore. Sounds good to me. He invented the internet, I guess he has every right to break it now and again. ;)