Does anyone have any insight into why the number of unique visitors reported by Google is so much lower that data reported by my host account? Its a pretty dramatic difference -- for example Google visitors for one day 50, host account 330. Thoughts on why this might be happening?
Google analytics is the good tool to know about the visitors. you have to know about the number of hits and number of visitors.
The way Google Analytics gets the numbers versus the way other software gets it is different. In my experience, Google Analytics is far more accurate. Even though the numbers are less appealing, you are better off sticking with that so that you can actually track accurate visitor data and make modifications. Other software doesn't really provide this ability to you as much (or should I say, as clearly?).
Hi, With such a big difference, I suspect the number 330 is page requests (hits) rather than unique visitors. Does your host provide a set of statistics? Paul
Google analytics shows a lower amount than your host data, because your host data includes hits from robots and non human traffic such as spiders etc..... Hope that helps.... Regards Chris
You should properly analyse that how does host data give you that different stats. Google analytics is very much trustworthy and millions of people use it to get their stats. I think you should check it once that whether they are hits or real number of visitors.