Hi Tekamolo,

Those two analytic programs track different things in different ways, you should trust both. You just need to understand the difference in what is being tracked by those programs.

Unique visits isn't the same as unique visitors. One unique visitor could have dozens of unique visits. A "visit" is a session and a "visitor" is a user that could have many independent visits.

One program tracks all visits, including visits by robot programs, and the other program track unique visitors and excludes visits by bots. Those are two different metrics and the numbers should be different.

There is a WP plug-in called slimstat, that gives lots of stats similar to analytics, worth a go!

Visit is the total amount of times anybody comes to your site if one person visits more than once they only get 1 hit as a unique visitor. The UV is lower.

I get quite some hits from GoogleBot, Baidu spider, Yahoo crawler,... if I check my log in my Visitors module (Drupal module but WP probably has something similar). I think these hits are calculated in Hostgator Awstats but not in Google Analytics.

Hostgator Stats also count Google spider, Yahoo crawler visits.. i guess this is something which confusing you..!

Google analytics is a more in-depth search whileas awstats will record every hit and everything that touches your website even fake bots and visitors.