Hi all,

I'm a first time poster, long time reader.

I'm having a slight problem with Google Analytics. I first signed up for analytics half a year ago. After I implemented urchin.js, I didn't regularly check my analytics page until I figured I had a good data set to see how my site was doing. I logged back in a few days ago, and noticed that for the past 5 months, no data was recorded. So I found out that I had to upgrade from urchin.js to ga.js. I poked around online and saw several articles that stated that urchin and ga both send traffic information to Google - so it's the same backend database I'm assuming. I also know that I had implemented urchin perfectly because I have data for the first month that I had it up.

If this is the case, shouldn't the past 5 months worth of data show up after I upgraded to ga? I know ga.js is working perfectly because I can see data since upgrading. Otherwise, am I to assume I won't be getting data for the past 5 months?

Thanks,
Nelson

You are correct in that both urchin and ga both accomplish the same thing. Why you did not get data for the past few months I do not know. We have a friend at Google that said he recommends the ga.js over the urchin because it is an updated version of the tracker but they both should still get accurate data. Hope this helps

Right, Google recommends ga.js because urchin is legacy. It's listed in their FAQ that it may be one of the problems if I'm not getting any data if I'm still using urchin. Thus, their suggested solution is to upgrade to ga.js - which I did.

Because of this, I would assume that Google would've had some way of preserving data. Seems like I'm starting from scratch - which would really suck because the last few months are critical, I'd like to know how the traffic has grown since the launch of my site.