I am not “that” worried, neither have I ever felt “forced” to use the script (which, incidentally, is why I disabled it, as I wrote in my post) whatever that may mean, but am curious to why there is no redundancy available; Google Analytics is not beta, though – it’s “invite only”.

What is “DR system”? I’ve tried to find an explanation, but no cigar.

It’s a limited beta, part of the T&Cs say that there may be problems and downtime. Why should they have to provide DR system when it’s not live?

If you are that worried, don’t use it! You have a pop a Steven but he’s right, it’s your choice to use it, nobody forced you.

From Googling your name, I understand you work under the moniker “Jizz Mopper” at some factory called Moe’s Sperm-A-Thon, where “very short downtime” and “official” mean interesting things, but not in accordance with what the rest of your species think. By the way, this “very short downtime” is still very much in effect (and has been for almost 24 hours – as this is written 2006-03-10, 10:12).

Of course, this GA-kerfuffle would be easily had been done away with, if Google had done something to prevent it beforehand, e.g. by redirecting traffic or have set up a server-environment where redundance would have steered people clear of the numbness of yesterday.

I am sure your elegantly expressed opinion will very much clarify and matter singularly for the people who were affected by all this, e.g. Slashdot. Give them a ring, will you?

Cheerio,

Niklas

It’s the nature of how it works. All traffic analysis services use the same exact technique with Javascript.

Are people going to boycott Analytics just because it had a very short downtime? If you do, you are on my “officially an ignorant retard” list.