Ok, so on the dashboard it says I got 58 hits or something like that the other day-- on my Joomla I have a thing that says how many people - guests - are online at one point I had 658 people online. Why is it saying I only had 58? Is it not accurate? Please help thank you.
1) check you have google analytics code is within the <head> tags of the page 2) do you know your site is THAT popular to have 658 people online simultaneously? I mean you should know better yourself than asking.
I'm not sure if I do or I dont. I installed a mod that i just placed the code in and it placed it where it needed to be. IDK, I doubt that many where on but the Joomla stat thing said there was so I went with it.
Possible Joomla's stats shows Bot's activity as well? Google does a pretty good job eliminating bot's traffic. Maybe a Joomla expert can answer that question
I can almost guarantee that this is site stats showing bot activity, where as GA filters a lot of this out. A question I get from clients all of the time!