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How many websites in USA exceed the data collection limitations of Google Analytics?

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Little bit of background:

– I was researching on the limitations of Google Analytics

– After reading the Limitations, I wanted to know – How many websites in USA exceed the limitations of Google Analytics?

So Here’s the Short Answer:

Only 108 sites exceed this limitation

(as of today)

And Here’s the long answer:

Limitations of Google Analytics. Here’s the URL: http://support.google.com/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1070983

And I am quoting from the above URL:

Data Collection limit: You should not send more than 10 million hits per month. If you exceed this limit, there is no assurance that the excess hits will be processed.
Data Freshness limit: Sending more than 200,000 visits per day to Google Analytics will result in your reports being refreshed only once per day

And to take it further, I wanted to know how many website in USA get greater than 10 million hits per month, turns out only 108 websites in US get that much traffic.
Source: http://www.quantcast.com/top-sites/US?jump-to=108

so from data collection limit standpoint, only these 100 odd sites would exceed the limitations of Google Analytics.

To put things in Perspective: MySpace.com does not exceed Data Collection Google Analytics Limit:

my space can use google analytics

Conclusion

Just knowing about the Data Collection Limit was not interesting but I combined data from other data sources – it seemed very interesting to me! Anyhoo – In this post, I shared:

> Limitations of Google Analytics

> Answered How many websites in USA exceed the limitations of Google Analytics?

[UPDATE Feb 10th 2013] I made a mistake in correlating data from Quantcast and Google Analytics. Lesson learned: double-check for units when comparing data from two different sources

Florin Dumitrescu pointed out that while Quantcast uses People/Month and Google uses hits/month. They may NOT be always the same. Sorry about this.