We got a couple Google Analytics service calls this morning from some concerned patrons freaking out about traffic in their real-time report that was coming from an international space station (one of them was a government call!).
WTH? International spies? Aliens?
Well, we looked at a couple of other client profiles, and we saw the same exact traffic… and it actually isn’t counted in the real-time counter.
41 visits all day consistently… 4/1… April fools… pssssshhhhh….
Looks like we’ve been dupped by Google Analytics April Fools 2013. Very funny :/
Here’s another Google Analytics April Fools joke where you can export reports to Floppy Disk! https://analytics.blogspot.com/2013/04/updating-export-and-send-features-to.html
Checkout some of today’s other April Fools Jokes from Google and Youtube:
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