Individual or Separate Google Analytics Accounts for Each Country Location?

[hfranz]

We have 3 websites. USA, Germany and UK. Currently our analytics account is set up with 1 account with each domain as a Profile.

I am wondering if I would see more accurate results if I have them set up individually, under the same Google account, but different Analytic accounts. The reason I wonder is because I noticed when I was going through setting this up, it asked for each Country Time Zone for each domain. I was not sure if this was for me to see the times, or if this was to provide more accurate data.

Maybe this is just a personal preference topic?

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

Hi,

The best way to do this in my opinion would be like you're using it right now. The country and timezones are used for the data to be viewed in the right local timezone. Google Analytics provides reports with number about the visits from for example last hour. If you are in the wrong timezone your graphs could be quite weird saying that all your visitors come at night for your Germany account while the timezone is set for USA.

Don't worry about the accuracy of the data ;-), if you implemented the tracking codes the right way you're totally fine.

Happy analyzing.