Google Analytics reporting update

I spend hours looking into site analytics, making on site changes and pointing links and testing, testing and more testing looking for impact and trends across loads of sites.

I noticed today that on Friday 22nd July google changed things which has effect the reporting in google Analytics. The impact in one case has had 523% change in traffic source.

The sample below show the difference from the reports of google.com | /imgres AND google.com

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You can see the steep drop off of the referrals from /imgress and the mass upward trend of search referrals from google.

Just looking at referral from google you’d say wow someone has added a really powerful link and i’m ranking for everything under the sun but this is not the case when you compare with the referring charts.

So google images has either changed to now allow Analytics to reports the referral is if it from a search engine OR google Analytics has changed. In my opinion the trend line suggest its a change on google images end that’s been pushed out slowly over 3 days.

The site in question is image heavy with about 40% of all search traffic coming from image results so you can really see the effect.

So if you monitor Analytics and trend please take into account that the change happened on the 22nd July 2011 and completed on 23/24 July 2011.

 

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  • Great discovery gabs! Always annoyed before that they were grouped together, this should now provide more precise stats 🙂

  • Great discovery gabs! Always annoyed before that they were grouped together, this should now provide more precise stats 🙂

    • Anonymous

      cheer mate.. hope it helps some people out… 

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  • Yep ! I noticed it. I hope some4 good effects come with it.

  • Benjamin Coloto

    I didnt see anything good that came with that change… 

  • It’s great to hear that they implemented this.  Now it’ll be easier to experiment with SEO strategies for Google Images.

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  • these analytics helped me a lot  to understand a lot about SEO. How the link building process is carried out is shown clearly in this graph.

  •  Thanks a lot for your share brother, i till try to see my analitycs account to see this update like you told us… once more time thanks very much

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  • This may be set to old, now google analytics started rolling out an Real time feature. And these problems may be overcome after the real time features available to all. Anyhow thanks for sharing.

  • very intereseting.. since we also got a lot of trafic from images we compared results for our site and you’re right: the mass upward trend of search referrals from google… but this is not bad, ha?!

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