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Google Analytics is not showing all the visits

by cbnet
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I have installed Google Analytics (GA) on my site. GA data is showing less than 20% of the visits than the visits as shown by AWstats. In fact visits of many countries (like US, UK, France, Germany & many others) are not shown by GA.

What could be the reasons for this.
#analytics #google #showing #visits
  • Profile picture of the author MrPitBull
    I've been using Analytics for a few years and have AWstats. Analytics is always about 20% less. So if Awstats says I had a 100 visits, Analytics will show 80. This is because Analytics is a script, and some browsers will not run the script and/or the visitor has scripting turned off.
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    • Profile picture of the author d0de
      Originally Posted by MrPitBull View Post

      I've been using Analytics for a few years and have AWstats. Analytics is always about 20% less. So if Awstats says I had a 100 visits, Analytics will show 80. This is because Analytics is a script, and some browsers will not run the script and/or the visitor has scripting turned off.
      OP is saying analytics is showing less than 20% of visits, not 20% less visits.

      Also, it seems really unlikely that 20% of real-humans-at-a-computer visitors have javascript turned off unless you're targeting a niche that has particularly tech savvy consumers.

      To OP: Are you sure you're comparing like with like? You're looking at unique visitors in both and not some other stat like pageviews or hits?
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  • Profile picture of the author cbnet
    Have checked just now : GA is showing 23 visits & 11 unique visitors compared to 77 visits & 51 unique visitors in Awstats.
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  • Profile picture of the author Menzieshunt
    I have the same discrepancy on my site too - AWStats always higher than Google Analytics by about 30%
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  • Profile picture of the author Chrisbroholm
    Not that I know, but why are you assuming Google Analytics isn't showing all the visits? Couldn't it much as well be AWStats that is showing way too many visits? Maybe from spiders or something like that.
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    GA filters out visits from bots. AWstats does not.
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    • Profile picture of the author DeskCoder
      Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

      GA filters out visits from bots. AWstats does not.
      And boom goes the dynamite! This!
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  • Profile picture of the author jeffreydale
    I had the same problem not too long ago. It was showing like 2 visits a day, sometimes 0 when I knew I was getting at least 200+.. I don't know how it happened, but the code somehow got deleted. At the time I was updating Wordpress themes, and testing a lot of plugins, so make sure to check that first. Also, make sure it's above the bottom head tag too. There was a lot of people having this problem.. and there's a couple of ways to fix it.. but that is what worked for me. Try experimenting putting the code in the header, then the footer etc.. until it finally starts recognizing correctly.
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