- Nov 10, 2015
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- John
Hello again,
About a week ago we started seeing some weirdness with our Google Analytics (GA) tracking.
Anywhere between 20-35% of our traffic is showing up as coming from Virginia.
It doesn't matter the source: internal emails, conquest, search, banners - GA is showing our traffic as coming from VA. And of course we are not in VA. So after hollering at everyone for about a week our IT guys started digging a bit deeper. We pulled the server logs and did a lookup on the IP addresses from our traffic - across every channel. NONE of the IP's were from VA.
Our IT guys think this may be one of two things:
I have spoken to local friends with dealerships and also in Texas and California who are seeing the same things. We have reached out to Google Analytics support with absolutely no success.
Has anyone else seen something similar?
Thanks again to the DealerRefresh community!
J.R.
About a week ago we started seeing some weirdness with our Google Analytics (GA) tracking.
Anywhere between 20-35% of our traffic is showing up as coming from Virginia.
It doesn't matter the source: internal emails, conquest, search, banners - GA is showing our traffic as coming from VA. And of course we are not in VA. So after hollering at everyone for about a week our IT guys started digging a bit deeper. We pulled the server logs and did a lookup on the IP addresses from our traffic - across every channel. NONE of the IP's were from VA.
Our IT guys think this may be one of two things:
1. An issue with a second tier mobile carrier whose traffic is routing through a server farm in VA.
2. These are AOL users whose traffic is routing through an AOL server in Reston, VA (AOL HQ).
2. These are AOL users whose traffic is routing through an AOL server in Reston, VA (AOL HQ).
I have spoken to local friends with dealerships and also in Texas and California who are seeing the same things. We have reached out to Google Analytics support with absolutely no success.
Has anyone else seen something similar?
Thanks again to the DealerRefresh community!
J.R.