Over the past day or so, there have been numerous complaints about Google Analytics real time analytics having serious latency issues. Some are saying the charts will show little to know traffic and then all of a sudden spike to show a tremendous amount of traffic.

Personally, I have been trying to replicate this for the past 24-hours and have been unsuccessful. But maybe this is specific to some regions and not impacting me in New York?

The Google status dashboard has not shown any issues with Google Analytics in the past 24-hours. I do not see any response from an official Google representative on these complaints, not in the forums and not on social (but Google Analytics on social in 2022 has been super inactive because of staffing). But there are numerous complaints on Twitter and in the Google Analytics Forums (I am linking only to one). Here is what the forum says:

Here are some tweets on the topic:

So I am not sure what is going on but there are a lot of folks having issues with Google Analytics real time reports both in GA4 and UA3.

Forum discussion at Google Analytics Forums.

Update: Google has finally confirmed the issue and said it was resolved. Google posted this message here:

Update April 11th: It is apparently not fixed and Google posted an update over here saying:

A bit later Google is working on a fix:

And a bit more later, Google said for most people it is resolved:

And Google now said it is resolved a little while later:

Another update: Check this out:

Update April 21: Turns out Google is not going to fix this fully, see more details here.