Wordpress and traffic analysis

[DLGx]

Stats reported by Google Analytics and Awstats a bit puzzling for me. Awstats reports about 6 times as many unique visitors. I don't know how many are reading the feed and if Awstats are simply counting those but even that's the case 6 times as much traffic would be an awful lot.

[T0PS3O]

AWstats reads every event on your site, no matter where. Analytics only records those events where you stuck the tracker code.

[DLGx]

Still strange to me that the number of uniques reported differ by so much.

[T0PS3O]

You'll have to look up their definitions of 'unique'. Some programs like StatCounter let you define it by a number of hours. Most log parsers count one unique as a session, until they leave the site (referrer is not the same site anymore).

[Jean-Luc]

I don't know how many are reading the feed and if Awstats are simply counting thoseYes, AWStats will count the feeds as pages in WordPress with nice URL's.:rolleyes:

To exclude the feeds, use the SkipFiles directive :SkipFiles="REGEX[\/feed\/]"

Jean-Luc

[DLGx]

I am starting to suspect that analytics (and also statcounter...tried both) for some reason are not working properly. I can be online for two hours hand counting visitors using the "users online" feature in Wordpress and I will have a visitor number much higher than both analytics and statcounter reports for a full 24 hours.

And no I am not counting spiders.