Does OCP skew search engine analytics?

[Aaron Pitts]

Great script, simple question: does OCP skew search engine results i.e. google analytics? I've noticed my bounce rate has gone up since using it and I'm wondering is it giving false results to google?

Thanks

[Patrick Mylund Nielsen]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 4:45 AM, Aaron Pitts <aaron...@googlemail.com> wrote:

Great script, simple question: does OCP skew search engine results i.e. google analytics? I've noticed my bounce rate has gone up since using it and I'm wondering is it giving false results to google?

No. Google Analytics works by running some JavaScript on the page to collect information, then sending that information back to Google. OCP only loads the page (the initial GET request); it doesn't interpret it, load any images, run any JavaScript, etc., and thus would never fire off Google Analytics.

If you were using something like AWStats, which parses access logs to get similar information, then your hit counts would be skewed unless you excluded the OCP IP or user agent.