At the beginning of each month, I put together a SmartStats report for our clients that details various online metrics from the previous month. One tool I use to do this is Google Analytics. Well this month, while putting together reports for February, I noticed cities appearing twice in the Map Overlay section:
Cities showing up twice in Google Analytics reports
When I change the dates to Jan 1-31, it’s fine. So the problem must have creeped up in February.
When something goes wrong with Google, where do you search? Google. Doing a couple Google searches didn’t yield any answers, just more people complaining the geographical report is reporting the same city multiple times and duplicate cities appearing in map report.
It’s not the first time it’s happened. Search Engine Roundtable reported the same problem of duplicate cities in Google Analytics back in August 2008.
Hope it’s fixed soon. Or else I’m switching to Woopra!