Google Analytics report by Tim Bray: we're hearing you Tim!
Posted by pat 277 days ago
Tim Bray posted a pretty detailed analysis of Google Analytics. It is full of insight since he has been running his homegrown statistics about his blog frequentation for a while, so he has a good baseline to compare to.
About one of the issue he mentions:
So I reported that as a bug, but the reporting process had that familiar Google “we’re-too-busy-being-scalable-to-hear-you” tone.
Some of us have read the Cluetrain Manifesto Tim, we're hearing you!-) I forwarded your post to the Google Analytics team and hope they will get back to you as they understand the reasons for the discrepancies you describe.