Google Analytics problems in South Africa?

Not too sure if it's Google's fault or our capped bandwidth.

Noticed a lot of local websites hanging on trying to connect to Google Analytics due to users internet being capped and not allowing international access.

Perhaps a local Google Analytics server would help resolve many of the issues.
 
Buzybuy said:
Noticed a lot of local websites hanging on trying to connect to Google Analytics due to users internet being capped and not allowing international access.

Perhaps a local Google Analytics server would help resolve many of the issues.
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Found the same thing when international went down, simple work-around is to disable google analytics altogether.
http://blog.techsoup.org/google-analytics
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/05/add-ons-for-disabling-google-analytics.html
 
We had the same problem, our site is hosted oversea's so the cap isnt the problem as they wouldn't get to the site in the first place

This isnt a small error, our traffic showed at some points only 20% of what it is normally
 
Another point:

Acnielsen stats constantly show more unique visitors than google does. (for me anyway)

The question is who do you believe...
 
I checked this against our International sites, segmenting only international traffic. It appears that there is a correlation in the decline albeit very slight. So the problem seemed to be global, but in area's where access is hindered it was exacerbated. I got hold of a contact yesterday who monitors large US based with direct contact to Google who was unaware of the issue, but confirmed a slight decline on their side.

The issue seems to be completely resolved. It's not really such a big deal, the point of analytics is aggregated trend data unless you're using a metric like visits to judge site performance, in which case you can work out this month bias and fill in the gap for yourself.
 
So end of the month is here, September was 28% lower traffic than August

Traffic normally deviates +- 7-10% max

After the day google went awry its never recovered back to the normal levels

Anyone else seeing this?
 
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