Unique visitor drops to 2 yesterday! Anyone experienced this?

Discussion in 'Traffic Analysis' started by vinson, Dec 15, 2006.

  1. #1
    Hi everyone,

    My site (http://autopinger.com) has constant traffic of unique visitors ranging from 500 to sometimes 800 per day but yesterday, my stats shows there are only 2 uniques! Anyone experienced a sudden drop in visitor and any guess what had happened? This beats me!
     
    vinson, Dec 15, 2006 IP
  2. thedark

    thedark Well-Known Member

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    #2
    probably you have some problems with the website, don't show to the users
     
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  3. i30

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    #3
    Maybe your stat recorder just didn't work that well yesterday.
     
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  4. vinson

    vinson Peon

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    The funny thing is statcounter shows the number of visitors are pretty ok, probably drops by a hundred but my AwStats is showing just 2 uniques. Is AwStats reliable anyway?
     
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    JoshuaGross Peon

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    #5
    Well Awstats is installed on your server..... There's gotta be SOME problem (with Awstats itself, maybe) for a drop like that.
     
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    pjk Well-Known Member

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    It is most likely 1 of 2 things, either your stat recorded is messed up, or your server was down and visitors could not access the site.
     
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  7. vinson

    vinson Peon

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    Well, I m quite sure the server did not shut down as there were user activitities all day long. Anyone knows how AwStats uses the data? From a text file or some kind of database?
     
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    trichnosis Prominent Member

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    i have 2 web site . one of them is getting less visitors for last 5 days:(
     
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    Codythebest Notable Member

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    It has to be a stats problem ;)
     
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  10. i30

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    Yep often I'll have a day in a month when my Awstats shows like 5 visitors when my average is like 500 or something. So don't worry it should be back to normal tomorrow.
     
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  11. vinson

    vinson Peon

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    Are suggesting this is a norm? That's pretty bad for a stats tool!
     
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  12. i30

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    Yeah but it's no biggie. Still my favorite stats tool.
     
    i30, Dec 15, 2006 IP