[Richard Poe]

deport: Playing to the ‘what’s Google doing’ theory on FR won’t get your issue resolved or answered.

Actually, what I was hoping to accomplish by posting this article on FreeRepublic was to solicit the opinions of intelligent people with greater knowledge of the Internet than I have, who might be able to shed light on this issue and help me understand whether or not the discrepancy I discovered in Google Analytics' traffic report of January 31, 2009 is innocent or malicious.

Either way, the information I reported has potential repercussions for FreeRepublic, and logically should have been of interest to Freepers.

Sadly, my post failed to generate intelligent discussion. Instead, it generated strong and determined opposition of a most curious kind. This has been a learning experience, to be sure, but the lessons I learned here are not the sort I expected.

[deport]

My point and question still remains “ have you contacted Google Analytics to get their answer as to why’? If not coming to FR for the answer for Goggle Analytics’ operation, imo. It appears you must embed a code on your web page for Google Analytics to work. Has that been done correctly for Google Analytics as you seem to be getting tracking for other web monitors? If has been embedded corrrectly then your issue is with Google Analytics not FR as I’ve stated before. JMO of course.

[dayglored]

> ...solicit the opinions of intelligent people with greater knowledge of the Internet than I have, who might be able to shed light on this issue and help me understand whether or not the discrepancy I discovered in Google Analytics' traffic report of January 31, 2009 is innocent or malicious....Sadly, my post failed to generate intelligent discussion. Instead, it generated strong and determined opposition of a most curious kind.

No, you simply didn't get the answer you wanted.

You wanted confirmation of your worst fears, and to drive traffic to your blog. Instead, you got, "Nope, probably just a net glitch or an error in your own stuff. Please pimp your blog over in the 'Bloggers' area."

And you're surprised and shocked that the "intelligent people with greater knowledge of the internet" didn't agree with you. Oh well. ;-)

I hope your day improves.