On a new blog, I have awstats, Google analytics, and Active meter for shits and giggles. They all show completely different stats. Are they interfering with each other? Which out of the 3 is the most reliable to give me accuracy? Also, on aw stats, my page views, and bandwidth is very abnormal. 1000 page views for every 100 visitors.and bandwidth is way high. Any suggestions?
google analytics is accurate , also ihave heard a lot about statcounter.com, you may want to try that too
AWStats bandwidth is accurate. In fact, it is slightly underestimated. Keep in mind that Google Analytics and the other JavaScript counters can only count the pages that include their tag and they only count them when the visitor runs the JavaScript in the tag. Web robots do not run JavaScript and are not counted. Images, videos, pdf files do not include a JavaScript tag and are not counted either by Google Analytics. On the other hand, AWStats may count too many page views (in WordPress blogs, it often happens that AWStats counts hits on RSS feeds as page views). It is possible to change the default AWStats configuration to avoid this problem. Jean-Luc
Now this makes sense, because the Google analytic stats are very low compared to even the visits from social net work communities.(Only appears to count home page visits) I am also wondering, if a visit comes in through pages other than the home page , is that counted as well, because my page views are running high compared to uniques and visitors. ex: 170 visits, and 3000 page views. It seems unlikely that every visitor is viewing 25 pages, so is are these visits directly to the pages, by passing the home page? So this is what I was thinking...I have a banner spot at the top, is there a monitoring program that will measure tha amount on impressions of that banner, since it reloads on every page view and is a constant at the top? Will that give me an accurate measurement of actual reloads and impressions?