Visitor Stats Anomaly

bobski71 · 01-30-2007, 04:47 AM

The organisation I work for has recently had Google analytics added to it's main website, however it has become apparent that there is a huge discrepancy with the visitor stats.

One day last week the server side stats package was telling us that there were 8,997 visitors whereas Google analytics gave a reading of 2,220.

Can anyone tell which one I should trust?

mhmdkhamis · 02-10-2007, 11:40 PM

usualley i trust in google on every thing

Tam_18 · 10-14-2007, 11:26 AM

I'm new to Google Analytics, but I think the reason might be that Google does not count robots since robots do not reference javascript.

We have a similar set up with our company site and our stats read similar to yours. After checking the referring urls on our server side stats - I saw that alot of them were robots - alot of which were internally generated by tests run by our programmers.

So I would also trust the Google stats!

01-30-2007, 04:47 AM	#1 (permalink)
bobski71 Noogle Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 1 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Visitor Stats Anomaly The organisation I work for has recently had Google analytics added to it's main website, however it has become apparent that there is a huge discrepancy with the visitor stats. One day last week the server side stats package was telling us that there were 8,997 visitors whereas Google analytics gave a reading of 2,220. Can anyone tell which one I should trust?

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02-10-2007, 11:40 PM	#2 (permalink)
mhmdkhamis Googler Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 97 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	usualley i trust in google on every thing

10-14-2007, 11:26 AM	#3 (permalink)
Tam_18 Noogle Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 6 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	I'm new to Google Analytics, but I think the reason might be that Google does not count robots since robots do not reference javascript. We have a similar set up with our company site and our stats read similar to yours. After checking the referring urls on our server side stats - I saw that alot of them were robots - alot of which were internally generated by tests run by our programmers. So I would also trust the Google stats!

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