Google Analytics seems to have had an outage starting at about 4 am ET this morning. The real-time analytics report within Google Analytics was not showing users all of the data. The issue now seems to be resolving a couple of hours later.
Chandramani Das was one of the first to notify me of this and he posted on X at 4:28 am ET:
Anyone else noticing a sudden drop in #GA4 Realtime traffic today? We're seeing 40 to 50% lower numbers across multiple properties within 5 minutes. Checking whether a reporting delay, or a genuine traffic fluctuation in Spam Update.
Yes, of course this happens hours after Google announced the August 2026 spam update - just so site owners can freak out even more.
Here is a screenshot of the real-time Google Analytics report:
Perry Richardson also notified me on X at about 4:25 am ET - he said:
Something not right with Google Analytics live traffic at the moment. Not displaying all traffic at the moment.
can confirm it's down across all the sites i manage.
— Mayank Parmar (@mayank_jee) August 19, 2026
love how it crashed a few hours after the spam update lol
Some are reporting it is working - and it seems to be working okay for me. So this may be a regional outage only?
well it still looks the same for me. maybe it is the spam update for me
— Mayank Parmar (@mayank_jee) August 19, 2026
What are you all seeing with GA4 real time reports?
And if you see a huge drop in real time analytics, it might just be a reporting bug.
Forum discussion at X.
