Is Google Analytics correct?

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How accurate are google analytics?

On one of my sites analytics says 10 people visited the site yet on the same day my amazon shows 40 clicks....:confused:

Which is a bit odd, does anybody have any ideas?
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  • Profile picture of the author mediaspree
    Originally Posted by merlincat View Post

    How accurate are google analytics?

    On one of my sites analytics says 10 people visited the site yet on the same day my amazon shows 40 clicks....:confused:

    Which is a bit odd, does anybody have any ideas?
    Is analytics on every page? When did you check the stats? It sometimes takes 24 hours for analytics to properly show your reports.
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  • Profile picture of the author Quasha
    Of course analytics is correct....Check your analytics settings or wait for a little while.
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  • Profile picture of the author almedajohnson
    I think you might made any small mistake in putting tracking code. As that was happened to me as well some pages of my site were not tracking correctly so just check the code on your site.
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  • add statcounter as another way to track visitors and compare the 2.

    Mine are both approx. the same, GA is always less though
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    10 x 4 = 40?



    Originally Posted by merlincat View Post

    How accurate are google analytics?

    On one of my sites analytics says 10 people visited the site yet on the same day my amazon shows 40 clicks....:confused:

    Which is a bit odd, does anybody have any ideas?
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  • Profile picture of the author Charile
    Google analytics tracks accurate traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author guptaarun
    Google analytics information is always correct.
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  • Profile picture of the author coolspot2
    i would trust analytics over amazon. amazon maybe counting robots whereas analytics will not
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  • Profile picture of the author Mjoseph83
    yes, google analytics is accurate. I am using it since last 1 year.
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  • Profile picture of the author Fulltrip
    I also agree that Google analytics is the best and accurate for sure.
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  • Profile picture of the author abigailmarketing
    Google analytics is really one of the best tool. And most of the time it has accurate result
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  • Profile picture of the author App Developers
    I have read it is with in 5% of accuracy. I would give it time and make sure your code is on every single page, in the header.
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  • Profile picture of the author msj484
    It has always been pretty accurate for me. I think its the best of its kind that I've used.
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  • Profile picture of the author traderbenji
    I'm going to throw a counter arguament in here as I have always used google analytics. I have a site that has daily uniques of 250 page views on average, I changed something about 3 weeks ago on the site (the theme on a wp site) and the traffic according to analytics dived. I have just logged into my adsense account to have a look and it is saying that the traffic didn't dive. Both google products yet both telling me different results. I have checked my AW stats and it is very similar to adsense. Very strange. If someone can come up with an explanation would love to hear it.
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  • Profile picture of the author James-
    Could you possibly have clicked on your amazon aff links to get those clicks shown?
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  • Profile picture of the author milton11011
    idk, goog analytics says that i've gone to a certain page and spent 40 minutes on it ( can check by looking city by city and mines really specific). i deff havent. it also says i do this like two-three times a week.
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