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In the site analytics, privileged users can monitor some things like the total traffic on the site. However, it seems to be broken at the moment, all figures are almost zero. This is how it looks for Meta Stack Exchange (other sites show similar pictures):

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    It is not all 0, for example on 2018-04-07 there were 41 page views, 35 visits and 1 new visit ... maybe MSE got the traffic stats of Health.se?
    – rene Mod
    Commented Apr 11, 2018 at 15:44
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    @rene this is just sick!
    – Shadow Wizard
    Commented Apr 11, 2018 at 19:22
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    The same is on Ukrainian Language — since the 7th of April new visits are zero, while visits and page views are very small.
    – Sasha
    Commented Apr 12, 2018 at 14:10
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    Same at Geographic Information Systems.
    – PolyGeo
    Commented Apr 13, 2018 at 0:10
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    is this effecting Area51 stats too?
    – Nog Shine
    Commented Apr 14, 2018 at 6:57
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    @NogShine yes it is! On Ukrainian Language it went from 1250 a couple of days ago to 300 today!!! And I don't see admins reacting in any way!
    – P. Vowk
    Commented Apr 14, 2018 at 8:52
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    @P.Vovk Yes, looks like it. I reported a bug for that separately.
    – Nog Shine
    Commented Apr 14, 2018 at 9:27
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    We're investigating, we've had a number of large changes to our Google Analytics infrastructure, looks like we missed some bits...
    – Dean Ward StaffMod
    Commented Apr 16, 2018 at 17:11
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    Aviation got the weirdest graph: all 0ed out except for the week 6-12.04.
    – Federico
    Commented Apr 17, 2018 at 12:45
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    @Federico, it's not only Aviation; it seems to occur on all sites. At least Ukrainian language showed a graph exactly like in the bug-report few days ago (i.e. everything fine before 2018-04-06, low numbers after 2018-04-07), but now it shows a graph similar to what you said about Aviation (i.e. zeros before 2018-04-05, valid values for 2018-04-06..2018-04-11, very low values after 2018-04-12). Should we update the bug-report with a new graph?
    – Sasha
    Commented Apr 19, 2018 at 12:27
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    Related report on PPCG
    – Shog9
    Commented Apr 25, 2018 at 18:15
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    This is quite clearly a network-wide issue.
    – Raphael
    Commented Apr 29, 2018 at 15:33
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    @DeanWard any update?
    – Pandya
    Commented Jul 2, 2018 at 6:03
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    @DeanWard E.g Area51 pages still didn't count visits per day.
    – Pandya
    Commented Jul 2, 2018 at 10:44
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    @Pandya all area51 pages now show the correct visits
    – Dean Ward StaffMod
    Commented Jul 2, 2018 at 13:50

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Apologies for the slow response here in completely resolving the issue. We made major changes to our Google Analytics infrastructure a few months back and completely missed that the same GA properties were used to drive the metrics behind Area51 stats and overall site analytics.

When we finally made the cut over to our new GA properties it coincided with the final couple of sprints before launching Teams so my time (and DAG's time) was completely tied up elsewhere.

But, enough excuses; Area51 and the main sites all reflect reality. So I'm marking this as .

Thanks for the heads up

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    The homepages of beta sites still don't show the visits per day stats.
    – gdrt
    Commented Jul 2, 2018 at 15:14
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    That's a separate issue, I think that temporary change can be undone.
    – Glorfindel Mod
    Commented Jul 2, 2018 at 15:38
  • @Glorfindel, opened a new ticket.
    – gdrt
    Commented Jul 2, 2018 at 20:24
  • There is a bug reported related to this same issue.
    – Arulkumar
    Commented Jul 10, 2018 at 12:21
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This is from one of our Developers:

We're investigating, we've had a number of large changes to our Google Analytics infrastructure, looks like we missed some bits...

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  • So, is this the reason for the mismatch of stats on Area51, Stack Exchange site also?
    – Nog Shine
    Commented Apr 20, 2018 at 14:18
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    @NogShine Yes..
    – Robert Cartaino
    Commented Apr 20, 2018 at 14:19
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    So should I close the related question as duplicate or should I wait till this gets a status-completed ?
    – Nog Shine
    Commented Apr 20, 2018 at 14:21
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    @NogShine It's best to close duplicates so not to split the status / updates / conversation.
    – Robert Cartaino
    Commented Apr 20, 2018 at 14:23
  • It wasn't clear that this question was about Area 51 too. Edited it.
    – Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog
    Commented Apr 20, 2018 at 18:53
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    Seeing as it seems to be taking a little while to get this sorted, could I suggest temporarily changing the site stats widgets to point to 'last known good' data? It doesn't look very good to potential new users when beta sites proclaim '2 visitors/day' on their front page....
    – Нет войне
    Commented Apr 21, 2018 at 6:55
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    @Robert Just curious, don't you check how things work after making "large changes to infrastructure"? Sounds basic to me. Just saying, since it could save those 10 days it took you (the team, not you personally) to spot this bug report and start investigating, and all it takes to spot the bug is visiting one of the sites analytics page.
    – Shadow Wizard
    Commented Apr 21, 2018 at 19:36
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    @ShadowWizard A51 is pretty much ignored most of the time. Also, I'm starting to get the sense that, due to the large active user base, there's an assumption that these things will be caught by the community sooner or later.
    – ItamarG3
    Commented Apr 22, 2018 at 8:56
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    @ItamarG3 not talking about A51, well aware it's "ignored", as you said... this bug affects all sites. Robert happens to be the "boss" of Area 51 hence I guess many see him as linked only to that site, but he's also an ordinary CM, who sometimes post "general" replies, not related only to Area 51. :-)
    – Shadow Wizard
    Commented Apr 22, 2018 at 9:09
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    I agree with @topomorto: people may think that is not useful at all to ask a question on a site with 3 visitors/day.
    – Charo
    Commented Apr 24, 2018 at 7:46
  • Is it time for a ~3 week update on this bug?
    – hazzey
    Commented May 10, 2018 at 20:33
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    @hazzey I just checked this morning and it’s in progress; high on whatever fast-track queue that gets this done sooner rather than later
    – Robert Cartaino
    Commented May 10, 2018 at 21:48
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    I notice the visitors / day section is gone from some of the pages, which seems like a good temporary solution - thanks.
    – Нет войне
    Commented May 17, 2018 at 18:50
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    @RobertCartaino exactly one month later, any update? I understand Area 51 is very low in the development team priority list, and accept it, but still hope they can fix something like that.
    – Shadow Wizard
    Commented Jun 10, 2018 at 19:18
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    @RobertCartaino well... the best of luck getting this fixed. :-)
    – Shadow Wizard
    Commented Jun 10, 2018 at 19:38
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This is also affecting the Traffic Sources panel, which (on Physics, at least) isn't displaying any data at all:

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For comparison, this is what the traffic looks like on the history page:

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    On Mi Yodeya, page views were previously normal until the drop in early April, and are now showing near-zero. We, too, have the brief spike you have here, but only for the one stat. See screen shots in this duplicate.
    – Monica Cellio
    Commented Apr 22, 2018 at 2:44
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    Same graph for Ask Ubuntu, a flat zero line outside the range from 5th to 12th April. In between there are numbers in the range of roughly 200k-900k.
    – Byte Commander
    Commented May 2, 2018 at 11:22
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    On RPG.SE, traffic is doing the same thing.
    – KorvinStarmast
    Commented May 10, 2018 at 18:57
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  • The visits/day seems to be realistic here, for example 340 visits/day for quantum computing.
  • It seems to be the Area 51 pages that are reporting near 0 visits, for example here.
  • Google Analytics seems to be reporting realistic numbers, Area 51 is just not getting them (but stackexchange.com/sites) is. Should not take long to fix.
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    Reproduced. Analytics page stats are in sync with Stack Exchange stats. The problem is only on Area51 now.
    – Nog Shine
    Commented May 31, 2018 at 2:35

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