Hi, Only half of the visitors to my blog are tracked by Google analytics. Suppose if the visitors to my blog are 1000 as per awstats, google analytics will report only 500. Do anyone know the reason for this? I think majority of my website visitors are mobile users and so those users are not tracked by google analytics. Is this true? Here is the blog : http://www.freezonal.com/
Unless you''re offering to give him that script, that neither helps nor answers his question. GA does track visits from mobiles - look for the Advanced Segments menu in the top right and choose mobile traffic If you're not getting the same results from awstats and GA there are several possible reasons - 1. GA isn't correctly installed on all pages 2. You're not comparing the same metric - e.g you're comparing visitors with pageviews 3. Awstats is recording a large number of hits from bots - in GA the page has to be called up, with the GA pixel, so isn't recording hits from bots to your server.
Dear magda, thank you very much for your reply GA is installed on all my pages and I'm comparing same metric also, but i think it's due to the difference in bots' hit. I check my website from ucweb browser and also told some of my friends to check from similar browsers, but on next day when i checked it, GA did not show anything that i did on my website from ucweb mobile browser. I think GA is considering UCweb browser as a Bot
I never knew that GA didn't track bots before, you'd have thought they would include that as a metric (then again I suppose that could be potentially embarrassing for them). Thanks a lot for the info!
If it's calling up the page, then GA will count it as a pageview. It's not a question of Google 'considering a browser as a bot' A bot that hits your server, won't be counted by GA, anything that calls up the page, will. Use sitescanga.com to check if it's correctly installed.
Now its good to know that i'm not the only one who thought something was weird with my google analytics. To me it doesnt make sense why they wouldn't track every visit.
To understand how any system is tracking and what it's tracking, you need to have some understanding of how it works - There's more detailed stuff here -http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/concepts/gaConceptsOverview.html#howAnalyticsGetsData http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/gaTrackingTroubleshooting.html#gifParameters There's nothing weird going on here, they are not picking and choosing what they track for some conspiracy-theory reason. GA tracks things in a particular way because it uses a particular technology.
I have had a similar issue, it does not seem that analytics tracks that accurately. Yesterday is showed less than 30, but my stats program on the server showed over 100 unique visitors and many time that in page views. It seems that this is true with all my word press blogs. My adsense shows a low number too for impressions, but not the same number analytics shows. I would normally think my local stats program may be wrong, but there have been days I have had more unique visitors to a sites Amazon affiliate store than I had visitors. @ weeks ago on my fly fishing site I showed 38 visitors on the site with my web logs, 5 went to the Amazon shop, 3 showed up in analytics, 11 impressions with adsense. Do I need to move the code to a higher level on the page (I use a plug-in) or is it just not that accurate? The fishing site is a PR1 site(new) according to the pr tools, if that matters.
I don't think PR is an issue here, Cyberpope. Me too have the same problem looking at data from both GA and AwStats. If someone just tell me how to install GA correctly on all of our pages specially if we working on blogs? Like today, I see at my AwStats, my unique is around 332 but on GA it is only 35 ??? And I become more and more confuse when looking at my adsense. The data only shows 62 impression??? Lol, this is really a headache here if it is true. Can someone enlighten us please...
Please dont trust awstats. It shows hits - That means every load of a file. This would be way higher than the real visitor count.
What I think is funny when I get more spam comments from unique IP's and more hits on my amazon shop than I get adsense impressions and GA hits.GA is showing my future gaming site had 2 yesterday, yet I got 13 spam commenst from unique ips, plus 30 people hit my feeds. It seems like I have allot more action than 2 hits. LOL
Indeed, I believed AW was showing me accurate stats til I realized that the number of hits =! uniques