Google analytics discrepancies?

Have any of you noticed major differences in statistics between google analytics and other services? I am trying to see why my site tells me people are viewing videos all day but google analytics tells me otherwise.

 

That has literally nothing to do with the topic of this thread.

 

if you trust google at all, and its who you want to rank on, then check out your google webmasters tool and see what it says about your traffic, it will be different from google analytics, but they actually explain why inside the webmaster page.

 

I agree with Seriously. You should visit you webmaster and it will let you know the the exact reason about this differences..

 

This is news to me. I shall have to check this out myself. Until now I believed there was not such a difference.

 

Why did your ay that? Its your thread after all?

 

So I ran into a brain-racking situation with my employer the other day. A certain 3rd party advertiser is linking to one of our websites from several places on their all-flash website (and not for free mind you). In an effort to gauge the utility of these links, I’ve been perusing through both Google Analytics (to measure the number of visits from the advertiser’s website) and the admin the advertiser provides us (which tells us the number of times people have clicked on our links).
Much to my dismay, there was a serious discrepancy between these two metrics. Unlike the type of minor discrepancy that can be explained away by ‘differences in cookie tracking’ or ‘unique vs. total visitors,’ these metrics represent an exponential difference (the advertiser’s web analytics interface claims there are thousands of click-throughs while Google Analytics claims there are a couple hundred visits).

 

The post was deleted. It was someone trying to boost their post count with an unrelated comment.

 

Yes, I have noticed it. I just posted a question on the same issue. I am showing a bit more traffic from statcounter vs. google analytics on a consistent basis. What is the deal with this?

 

My Blogger stats always show more views than Analytics. I read that Blogger counts bots as views which could be why it displays more, but Analytics sometimes doesn't display views even when I recieve a comment on my blog, which means I obviously had a view haha, any ideas?

 

I agree your comment

 

I'm not really sure if thats any better?

I Think i have figured out why there is a discrepancy. There are 2 factors google analytics uses. 1st one is Javascript. So if you have a visitor with javascript disabled, he wont show up because GA wont run. The second factor is Google Analytics shows a difference between Unique Visitors and Amount of Raw Visitors.

for example lets say someone comes to your site 10 times within the day. The Unique Amount is 1 but the Raw Visitors is going to be 10. Add that up against a few thousand people coming to your site. Google does show Both Unique and Raw, It runs off Unique though. Both are still far off which leads me to believe the 1st concern comes into play.

 

I cant believe why anyone would consider gogle analytics.
today I sat here with two pcs running.
On one pc I had google analytical live version running, looking at one of my websites.
every time I visited my website on the second pc it showed instantly in ga.
When I tried the same on another of my websites ga dd not show my visits.

Same person same ip, same computer, two sites, but ga gave completely different results.

No sane person would give any value to ga.

 

Yes. we can always see discrepancies in Google Analytics report when compared with other tracking tools. But these are too small and negligible and arises due to various technical issues such as disabling of Javascript. So we don't need to worry too much over this, as in the end we would be getting a good idea about the traffic to our website, with the help of Google Analytics.

 

hmm, my web server site stats says 4365 visits and analytics says 433 visits...

 

web server stats are based off of different information. i think the 4365 in your case is how many times the server was requested to load information such as an image. etc.

 

My server stats are prepared by webalizer, which I assume analyzes the server log.

The page views data is labelled total pages. This is 10508 (for feb 2012).

The hits data is labelled total hits. For the same period this is[SIZE=-1] 26809[/SIZE].

The visits data is labelled total visits. And that is 4365 for feb 2012.

Google analytics says only 433 visits...