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Does AWStats show ACTUAL visitors or does it include Bots as well?

by Steve23
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I'm paranoid about putting analytics on one of my new sites since I had some sites de-indexed a few months back. This one is meaty and authoritative, but I don't want to risk it. I'm tracking with statcounter, but have no idea if the visitors it's showing are legit or if it includes bots too. Same with awstats. If a site gets 100 visitors as reported by statcounter or awstats...how many of these are actual people?

S.
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  • Profile picture of the author socialbookmark
    Awstats separates Bot and real visitors traffic and according to my experience, the statistics it gives to you are almost true and you can trust them. Its according to what i experienced.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dahlia Valentine
    I don't personally rely on AWStats because the numbers there always seem way more inflated than what my other analytics programs are telling me.

    For example, here are the stats for one of my sites yesterday:
    Google Analytics = 20 visitors
    Clicky Web Analytics = 22 visitors
    AWStats = 80 visitors

    That's a HUGE difference. I'm more inclined to believe Clicky and Google Analytics since these numbers are both very similar -- and they include actual visitors, not bots.

    I haven't used Statcounter, but you may want to put it against Clicky (instead of AWStats) for a more accurate count.

    I personally use and love Clicky. It's an excellent real time stats program.
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  • Profile picture of the author jimbowman
    Google Analytics is much more reliable in my opinion, as all of my sites get a healthy quantity of referrer spam from bots, and all of it shows up in awstats, but none of it does in Analytics.

    I think AWStats uses a list of known user agents to identify the bots - but most of the bots on the net are not registered anywhere. It's easy to write a bot, even in a scripting language like PHP.

    One little warning - with sites like whorush, your competitors can use your Google Analytics codes to work out your entire list of sites, and to steal your niches.
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  • Profile picture of the author bhola badshah
    google analytic will show the actual users, however awstats record all users to your server based on apache logs including bots etc, google analytics shows the right stats.
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    Google Analytic is more reliable then AWStats. I think AWStats shows both as a diferent category.
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  • Profile picture of the author Old Dog New Tricks
    Those "bots" are busy little buggers aren't they? Too bad they don't have a pocket book.

    Always use this algorithms:

    Bots+logic=No money
    Humans+Illogic=Massive Money

    Crunch your stats keeping this in mind always.

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  • Profile picture of the author Steve23
    I had a problem a few months back where a batch of thin sites that I owned were de-indexed(all on the same analytics and Webmaster accounts). This new site(and each new site I create from henceforth) is a meaty site with lots of good content. Should I just go create a new, separate analytics account and add this site?

    Thanks,
    S.
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  • Profile picture of the author Suthers
    I'm finding that well over 90% of my "unique visitors" as measured by awstats are in fact bots. Google analytics is far more bot sensitive and counts very few of them.

    I wish that web hosts provided a screen layer that would automatically block bots, or at least the blacklisted ones.

    At present it can be very challenging to analyse site performance.
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