Google Analytics

Monday, November 14th, 2005

Re-Update: All is well in Analytics-ville. She’s working, but I’m still getting the twelve hours message. Weird.

Update: Well, the day after I wrote this, things picked up and the services’ speed was very snappy. But, it says Your first reports will be ready within twelve hours and it’s been over 24 hours (going on 36 as of this reading) and I’m wondering if there’s something wrong because I’ve got no data yet. Is anyone else having this problem?

A friend of mine pointed me to Google Analytics this morning. It seems Google bought Urchin Web Analytics and re-branded it. So far, my excitement’s been met with a brick wall in the form of “maintenance.” Almost every time I tried to log in, I encountered a long delay and eventually this message:

Google Analytics reporting is currently undergoing maintenance and will be available shortly. Your site traffic is being logged and you will be able to see the data after system maintenance has concluded.

I did manage to get in once and complete the registration process. Now I just hope I’ll be able to get in to see my web stats!

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Testing for Admin in WordPress at ara pehlivanian says:
November 15th, 2005 at 12:12 am
[...] Earlier today I mentioned how I came across Google Analytics. Suffice it to say, I opted to give it a try and went ahead and signed up. Once I’d gone through the process of setting up an account, I was given a snippet of code to put in my page <head> in order to report tracking data back to Google Analytics. The next step was to exclude myself from the stats lest I log a hit every time I visit my own site. Analytics has a feature where you can set up filters, one of which is the ability to filter by IP. Excluding my visits from work was easy enough since our Internet connection goes through a router whose IP is fixed. I ran into a problem however when I wanted to exclude myself from home. Unfortunately my ISP doesn’t give me a fixed IP so I can’t set up a filter that looks for and excludes a particular IP address. And then it dawned on me. I usually visit my own site while logged in as admin. So why not just test to see if the current visitor is logged in as Admin and if so, just don’t output the Google Analytics script tags. [...]

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