Do you still think Analyics updates only once a day?
September 26th, 2008Most of you probably know this already, but I’ve met a large number of bloggers on the internet who still thinks Analytics updates only once a day. So they can check their results only the following day. How silly! 
Although Analytics is not real-time, it updates every few hours, maybe even hourly. The fact that I love Analytics so much, because I can see those full-detailed results several times a day, so I know if a certain comment, forum discussion I participated in had an impact or not.
How do you force Analytics to update, so you can check your results for the current day?
Simple. Look at this picture:
When you open that little calendar in the top right corner, it tells you the time range in which the data is displayed. But if you look at it more closely, you can see that the current day is always outside this selection. Why? Because Analytics doesn’t want to show you the incomplete data, cause the day is still in progress.
The solution? A single click on the current date, then hit Apply, and you’re done. Now you can see all data collected today. And you can check it every few hours and it’ll show different numbers. Voila!
Hope this helped for those who were still in the darkness, and I’m curious if anyone has accurate information about how often Analytics updates. I’ll be pleased to hear that.
Thanks for reading, and if you’re one of those who had no idea about this, feel free to share/bookmark this post to help enlighten those who’re still roaming out there and have still don’t know the Secret
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indiaprab said,
September 26, 2008 @ 5:00 am
yes it really helps
because we can see the immediate effect of what u have done today or an hour ago.
Jani said,
September 26, 2008 @ 5:09 am
Exactly. Although I like this so much because I don’t have to wait to a certain time each day to view the statistics.
Paul (Boreas) said,
September 26, 2008 @ 6:51 am
And here I was trying to cut back to checking analytics once a week. :p
Good tip though.
Jani said,
September 26, 2008 @ 5:39 pm
One week? Man, you csn’t do that, you need this stuff
I’ll be happy if I could get myself to check it only twice a day…
Abhishek said,
September 28, 2008 @ 12:16 pm
Really i was not knowing that !! thanks for tip !!
Jani said,
September 28, 2008 @ 6:55 pm
Who-hoo, at least one person I could enlighten
I’m glad I could help. See you around!
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Nihar said,
September 29, 2008 @ 1:44 pm
Rjani, i didn’t know about this. I was thinking that we cannot select the current day. Thanks for the tip. Will check.
I totally depend on statcounter for real time updates. will keep checking analytics from now on.
Thanks…
Jani said,
September 29, 2008 @ 4:40 pm
Great, than it was useful after all
I’ve checked it since writing this post, it actually updates every few hours I think, but it stops counting at about 8-9 p.m. in Hungary, and counts the rest of the traffic to the following day. I’m sure it has to do something about the time-zones, but I couldn’t figure it out yet…