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Analytics giving crazy impossible data?

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mascotmike last edited by

When I look at my Analytics using any of my segments, they don't work. It shows zero visits for the segment until April 30th, then the visitors for the segment shoots up to above the number for all visits!

Anyone else experiencing this bizarre data?
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adrianvender1 last edited by

This is a common problem that is still being worked on. View the status here:

http://www.google.com/analytics/status#rm=1&di=14&ddo=1&hl=en
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EGOL last edited by

I hear other people reporting that April data for Google Analytics is not reporting properly.

I am sure that they will get it fixed.
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