Do Google Analytics Track All Visitors?

David E · 10-23-2006, 11:00 AM

When I log into my Google Analytics account it only shows me getting around about 30 visitors per day where as my hosting provider stats show me getting over 100 visitors per day. Is this standard?

mondine · 10-23-2006, 02:00 PM

Not standard, I don't think, but there's usually some difference.
One factor is the growing number of people that have browser scripting turned off, and so are invisible to Analytics.

David E · 10-23-2006, 03:22 PM

Thanks for the response, 100 visitors per day might have been a bit of an exageration thinking about it is more like 2000 visitors a month which now makes moresense.

anylund · 10-24-2006, 10:55 PM

Also I have discovered that many visitors do not get registered in rush hours because tracking relies that it can connect to google-analytics.com.brSo the best way to track visitor count is on-site. Use Analytics to track down trends and behaviour patterns. I think there is a way to track people who doesn't have scripting enabled, so you can predict the precentage of users that kind.brbrAnalytics is a good tool but far from accurate when it comes to numbers.brbrDoes anyone know is Google using same invalid clicks filter in Analytics than in Adwords?br

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David E Googler Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Lancaster, England Posts: 86 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Do Google Analytics Track All Visitors? When I log into my Google Analytics account it only shows me getting around about 30 visitors per day where as my hosting provider stats show me getting over 100 visitors per day. Is this standard?

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mondine Google Guru Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Vancouver, BC. Posts: 4,002 Thanks: 0 Thanked 4 Times in 3 Posts	Not standard, I don't think, but there's usually some difference. One factor is the growing number of people that have browser scripting turned off, and so are invisible to Analytics. __________________

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10-23-2006, 03:22 PM	#3 (permalink)
David E Googler Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Lancaster, England Posts: 86 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Thanks for the response, 100 visitors per day might have been a bit of an exageration thinking about it is more like 2000 visitors a month which now makes moresense.

10-24-2006, 10:55 PM	#4 (permalink)
anylund Googler Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 61 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Also I have discovered that many visitors do not get registered in rush hours because tracking relies that it can connect to google-analytics.com.brSo the best way to track visitor count is on-site. Use Analytics to track down trends and behaviour patterns. I think there is a way to track people who doesn't have scripting enabled, so you can predict the precentage of users that kind.brbrAnalytics is a good tool but far from accurate when it comes to numbers.brbrDoes anyone know is Google using same invalid clicks filter in Analytics than in Adwords?br

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