infobong.com

Despite my suspicions over Google's "don't be evil" maxim, I decided to sign up with their new analytics service because spammers have so overloaded my site, it's hard for me to see legitimate traffic at all. My referrers logs are full of spoofed spam URLs and most of my visits are connections to comments.cgi from spam bots. I'm hoping that Google Analytics will give me a better picture of my traffic. When you sign in with the project, you need to paste some code into the head section of each Web page, which I hope only counts traffic that actually loads HTML pages.

I've checked in with Google analytics a few times over the past few days to see my first report, and each time it tells me my data will be ready in 12 hours. Unless Google has redefined "hours," this message is wrong and quite irritating to see over and over again without explanation. OK Google, why didn't it update during the last 12-hour period? Because I've gotten legitimate comments over the past few days, I know my blog has been getting at least some traffic.