Google Analytics & punycode domains

[jacksonm]

Anybody using analytics with punycode domains? I set up a profile for a punycode domain and I can not get analytics to visit my site to verify the code. I do have it working fine with an ascii domain.

Any tricks required?

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[tee1]

working as in, if traffic occurs yes. Getting large amounts of traffic to analyze, well um NO. I am working on that.

If it works on your ascii sites not sure why its not working with punycode domains???

jacksonm
so does it let you add a new website profile?domain using punycode?
does give you the js code for tracking?

tee1

[jacksonm]

working as in, if traffic occurs yes. Getting large amounts of traffic to analyze, well um NO. I am working on that.

If it works on your ascii sites not sure why its not working with punycode domains???

jacksonm
so does it let you add a new website profile?domain using punycode?
does give you the js code for tracking?

tee1

Yeah, I added the profile with a punycode domain and entered the js code in my index.html file on the webserver. I tailed the webserver logfile, and then clicked the "check status" button in analytics, and I never get the verification visit. I can visit the site from my browser, from dynadot snapshot, etc. The website is working, but analytics verification never goes there for some reason.

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[tee1]

I am not sure what was going on. Maybe someone else has idea of whats up.
sorry I can't provide any help.
tee1

[rhys]

I don't know what the problem is unfortunately. I have about 30 IDN sites set up on analytics. They are working fine. And Tee - I don't have the low traffic problem, at least on most of them. :)

[jacksonm]

I don't know what the problem is unfortunately. I have about 30 IDN sites set up on analytics. They are working fine. And Tee - I don't have the low traffic problem, at least on most of them. :)


It suddenly started working, after trying it all day long. Freaky. I had switched the domain from namedrive to my own server today, so the DNS data was probably cached at google for long time. I guess namedrive sets a superlong TTL on the dns records - pretty dirty trick, if it's really true. I might dig down and verify it later.

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[jose]

I like statscounter.com. Unlike Google's it gives the direct referer urls where people are coming from. ;) Yes, fully IDN compatible.

P.S: There a hack to make GA do that, but don't know if it is still working.

[Olney]

Actually you can see the full referal in Analytics.

When setting up Analytics on a new domain it just needs time after the validation to store the traffic data. It's just like putting Adsense on a fresh site that isn't indexed. It might take up to a few days, you don't need to do anything special.