How can we stop Google analytics pulling in data from another site?
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We have a few accounts under one Google login. They all have separate Google analytics codes but one of the sites is somehow pulling in some data from another site but the other site has not got the same analytics code on it. Not sure how this is happening and what we can do about this, is it a bug in the Google Analytics system? Any help would be appreciated.
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Usually there is a snippett of code somewhere it doesn't belong. If you can figure out what data is being reported incorrectly you should be able to trace it back to the page it originated from. In that case, check the source code to make sure the correct UA code is there.
Is it possible that you have the wrong GA code entered on another tracking source, like in Moz for example? You could be getting filtered results from another program accessing your analytics information. Double check your social media, and CRO program or any other tool you might be using with GA.
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It seems unlikely that this is a bug in Google Analytics. It's hard to tell what the problem might be without looking at it, but Google does have a Google Analytics Debugger Chrome extension which might be useful to you in tracking down the issue.
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