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Google Flips Switch on Real Time Analytics

5 points by campeaux 16y ago

campeaux 16y ago
Can anyone else confirm this? I'm monitoring my Analytics account right now and I keep seeing the figures for today's visitors go up (with page refresh).
matthiaswh 16y ago
Current day's data has been available for me across 5 different user accounts and dozens of clients for at least a year. You just have to select today to see it. It sometimes lags by about an hour.
- campeaux 16y ago
  In the past I have been able to select the current day... but the reporting for the day always remained at zero. Only until the following day were stats from the previous day available.
destraynor 16y ago
Of course your analytics figures will keep going up. They were never frozen, you could always see "The very latest data that Google has processed". The key word here is "processed". Depending on your site, and GA, there will always be some delay. i.e. if I visit your site now, My visit gets recorded with GA. GA processes this as quick as it can. Once it has processed it, (And then updated all its corresponding data sets, everything from browsers, to goal completions etc), then you'll see it. The thing with "Real Time" is that whilst every analytics app out there claims to have it, the ones most likely to have it are the ones with least customers. There is some delay inherent in an analytics tool that processes data. Otherwise it's just a tail of your server log. If you want to play and measure how real time things are, set up a Profile for your site that includes only visits from your IP. Or set up a new page on your site with a URL only you know about. That'll let you see how quick it is. (Hint: It's pretty fast when you take into account the scale of the challenge) I wrote this run through of analytics tools, which you may have seen http://www.contrast.ie/blog/the-future-of-analytics-products/ http://www.contrast.ie/blog/the-future-of-analytics-products... Hope that helps. Des
- relix 16y ago
  If there's a huge amount of pageviews, the delay is even longer than 24 hours in GA. For one of my sites, the numbers keep going up until more than 24 hours after that day ended. This is annoying because the interface does show the day as being completely processed (i.e. it includes the day by default when you open up the reports).
- campeaux 16y ago
  We can discuss the semantics of 'real time' all day. Today I noticed an updated frequency of available data—Data that was on demand with a simple page refresh or through the API with no noticeable processing delay.

5 points by campeaux 16y ago

Can anyone else confirm this? I'm monitoring my Analytics account right now and I keep seeing the figures for today's visitors go up (with page refresh).

matthiaswh 16y ago

Current day's data has been available for me across 5 different user accounts and dozens of clients for at least a year. You just have to select today to see it. It sometimes lags by about an hour.

campeaux 16y ago
In the past I have been able to select the current day... but the reporting for the day always remained at zero. Only until the following day were stats from the previous day available.

destraynor 16y ago

Of course your analytics figures will keep going up. They were never frozen, you could always see "The very latest data that Google has processed". The key word here is "processed". Depending on your site, and GA, there will always be some delay. i.e. if I visit your site now, My visit gets recorded with GA. GA processes this as quick as it can. Once it has processed it, (And then updated all its corresponding data sets, everything from browsers, to goal completions etc), then you'll see it. The thing with "Real Time" is that whilst every analytics app out there claims to have it, the ones most likely to have it are the ones with least customers. There is some delay inherent in an analytics tool that processes data. Otherwise it's just a tail of your server log. If you want to play and measure how real time things are, set up a Profile for your site that includes only visits from your IP. Or set up a new page on your site with a URL only you know about. That'll let you see how quick it is. (Hint: It's pretty fast when you take into account the scale of the challenge) I wrote this run through of analytics tools, which you may have seen http://www.contrast.ie/blog/the-future-of-analytics-products/ http://www.contrast.ie/blog/the-future-of-analytics-products... Hope that helps. Des

relix 16y ago
If there's a huge amount of pageviews, the delay is even longer than 24 hours in GA. For one of my sites, the numbers keep going up until more than 24 hours after that day ended. This is annoying because the interface does show the day as being completely processed (i.e. it includes the day by default when you open up the reports).
campeaux 16y ago
We can discuss the semantics of 'real time' all day. Today I noticed an updated frequency of available data—Data that was on demand with a simple page refresh or through the API with no noticeable processing delay.