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Wordpress and traffic analysis

Discussion in 'Traffic Analysis' started by DLGx, Oct 14, 2006.

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    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.
     
    DLGx, Oct 14, 2006 IP
  2. T0PS3O

    T0PS3O Feel Good PLC

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

    DLGx Active Member

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    Still strange to me that the number of uniques reported differ by so much.
     
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    T0PS3O Feel Good PLC

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    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).
     
    T0PS3O, Oct 14, 2006 IP
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    Jean-Luc Peon

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    Yes, 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\/]"
    Code (markup):
    Jean-Luc
     
    Jean-Luc, Oct 15, 2006 IP
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    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.
     
    DLGx, Oct 16, 2006 IP