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statistics question......

by grumpyjacksa
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hi

according to awstats, i am getting around 4 - 5 times more unique visitors than whet google analytics tells me

any of you had a similar problem ?

any explanation ?

any feedback will be appreciated

thanx

pj
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  • Profile picture of the author Johnathan
    Originally Posted by grumpyjacksa View Post

    hi

    according to awstats, i am getting around 4 - 5 times more unique visitors than whet google analytics tells me

    any of you had a similar problem ?

    any explanation ?

    any feedback will be appreciated

    thanx

    pj
    Yes, it depends on what software you are using to analyze the statistics.

    Some calculates a 'unique' visitor as an IP that is unique within a 15 minute time frame (so is someone visited every 15 minutes a 1 second per day, then since that is 'outside' the 15-minute window it would count as having had about 100 visitors/day for really only one person (15*4*24 --> 1 day).

    Also, depends whether or not it filters 'bots', 'spammers', etc, etc.
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  • Profile picture of the author grumpyjacksa
    hi

    your reasoning makes sense.....

    however...

    would those spambots not show up as traffic not viewed ?


    i just looked at another blog as well.....from april 1st

    awstats.....

    346 uniques

    1221 visits

    3146 pages (all viewed traffic - traffic not viewed is abot 2.5 times that)

    BUT

    according to adsense url channel.....

    120 IMPRESSIONS

    is it possible ?

    thanx

    pj
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    • Profile picture of the author Johnathan
      It just depends on the traffic analysis program. I have 3-4 different log analyzers, and all of them tell me I have a different number of visitors/day. What I've learned, is to simply/manually filter the results myself to figure out what the 'real' amount of traffic is.

      I.e., I have some people that link to images on my website. If a user is visiting another website which has my 'linked' image, it will count as a 'visit' because they technically 'viewed' the image on my website (although they never actually visited it in the traditional sense). I also filter bots, particular search patterns (i.e., someone who visits a page every three seconds, of my entire website, is most likely a bot), etc, etc -- so after I've filtered that I get a fairly accurate representation of the 'actual' visitors to my website...

      IF you want to get a 'real' handle on the actual number of visitors to your site, you will probably need to filter the results as well.
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    all of that makes sense, but....

    awstats already differentiates between visitors viewed and not viewed....

    that filters out the bots

    then it differentiates between uniques, visits, and pages viewed

    so even if you compare uniques, and the definition of uniques is different (google analytics sees a uniques as 1 in 24 hrs), it would mean that my physical visitors are returning 3 times each....

    apparently

    no matter how i look at it,it just does not add up.

    i think....

    pj
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