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AWstats vs Google Analytics

by cobwab
11 replies
Hi,

According to AWstats in my cPanel for one of my wp blogs, in August, 2011, I got over 1,700 unique visitors.

However, Google Analytics says I only got 10 visitors during the period of August, 12 to September 12, 2011.

Why the huge difference?

I am only counting uniques in awstats and not total visits or hits.

I thought my wp blog was doing pretty good until I hooked it up with Google Analytics, but the low number of visits in GA would explain why I am not getting anyone to sign up for my free report.
#analytics #awstats #google #uniques
  • Profile picture of the author MatthewNeer
    You may have installed GA incorrectly, usually its pretty damn accurate in my experience... Did you link the accounts properly?
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  • Profile picture of the author Najat Engineer
    I'm sure there's something wrong
    what's you conversion rate? you can tell by the rate which one is accurate
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  • Profile picture of the author blackout17
    GA is the dogs..... Its great! it gets Unique Visitors as the main one but that is a really really big difference! See if you have it hooked up right
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  • Profile picture of the author Fazal Mayar
    you have installed ga not correctly i think, make sure you have integrated the code and checked in your profile that your site has connected with your blog.

    also, awstats has overflated stats because of bots and etc
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  • Profile picture of the author drooblez
    Yes, I agree it sounds like GA is not installed properly. Make sure you GA code is on every page, and not just on one.
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  • Profile picture of the author MartinPlatt
    Hi,

    Have you filtered users out in the settings, or something like that? 1700 unique visitors - are you sure it isn't page impressions? Just asking.

    If it is, it may be possible that you are filtering your login out, or your IP address?

    I can't think how you could mess up the installation of this plugin, so it reporting intermittently.

    That is interesting, I am seeing a similar sort of effect on my site also, that the AWStats numbers appear larger than the G.A. stats. That is interesting, I am going to look into that a little more...
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  • Profile picture of the author Generic SEO Guy
    Originally Posted by cobwab View Post

    Hi,

    According to AWstats in my cPanel for one of my wp blogs, in August, 2011, I got over 1,700 unique visitors.

    However, Google Analytics says I only got 10 visitors during the period of August, 12 to September 12, 2011.

    Why the huge difference?

    I am only counting uniques in awstats and not total visits or hits.

    I thought my wp blog was doing pretty good until I hooked it up with Google Analytics, but the low number of visits in GA would explain why I am not getting anyone to sign up for my free report.

    Make sure you placed your GA in a place where it will show up on every single page on your website.
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  • Profile picture of the author Burton Lancaster
    AWstats often counts "bots" and crawlers as unique visitors.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dee Odus
    The difference between the two stats is too much, something is wrong somewhere, I usually get +-200, check YouTube for installation tutorials if you are having problems, AWStats is reliable.
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