Hits Processed Per Month?

Question

If you refer to http://www.google.com/intl/en_uk/analytics/premium/features.html, you will notice that Standard allows for 10 million hits processed per month and Premium allows for 1 billion.

I have a website on an account, with multiple "folders" for different sub-domains, and also different "Views" or dashboards for some of these sub-domains.

The website I am on recently lost tracking for conversion rates, and everything has plummeted to near 0%, which is an incorrect statistic. I am curious as to how I can figure up if this account is reaching the 10 million limit on the standard version. Or at least how to figure actual hits processed a day, week, or month?

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Answer 1

I don't know how Google enforces hit limits in 2015. However in 2013 a Google representative sent one of our bigger clients a document (answering a question about data limits) that contained the following paragraph:

How do data limits impact sampling? Google Analytics does not sample your clients data at the point of collection or processing, regardless of how far they exceed our stated limits. So no hits are discarded. The only way to sample data at the point of collection is for clients to use_setSampleRate in their tracking code.

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[...] we reserve the right to shutdown their account [sc. if limits are exceeded], but it won't happen before we have attempted to contact the account Admins multiple times and we have exhausted all other options.

Unless Google has changed it's policy in the last 1,5 years I would say not, unprocessed hits are not your problem; it seems Google would have contacted you with an request to limit your hits or upgrade to Analytics Premium before problems occurr.

Plus, since you mentioned that you have several views - views do not count towards your quota (they display the same data in different ways). However properties (I think that is what you mean by "folders") do.

Updated 2017: It seems that Google intends to enforce limits more strictly. One of my clients now has the following warning in his GA interface:

Your data volume (XXX hits) exceeds the limit of 10M hit per month as outlined in our terms of service. If you continue to exceed the limit you will lose access to future data.