Google Analytics Is Having Problems: Auto-Tagging Issues

January 16, 2008 by ian

If you're using Google Analytics, Google Adwords and 'auto-tagging', you may have noticed that your numbers suddenly dropped:

It's not you. We've researched this and contacted Google. Here's what we found out:

Apparently, this is only occurring for folks using auto-tagging. If you're using UTM codes, you're fine.
Google is aware of the problem and is working on it.
The folks at Google say no data's been lost.
It appears, at least for us, that clicks and sales from Adwords were recorded as 'direct' instead. So the revenue may still be in your reports, just mis-allocated.

So, if you're seeing data weirdness, and you're using auto-tagging, double-check your implementation. But realize that it may have been this bug.