Which is better according to you? google analytics or awstats? in determining the traffic that comes to your site? I really confuse here... My google analytics reads different data from the awstats of my site. Which one should we use as indicator of our site progress? Please anyone ...
This is an interesting one. I also found that the 2 just don't ad up, ever. Awstats will show one thing and Google another. In my experience I found having Google Analytics to be the better choice. Why? Because if you ever want to sell your site or show advertisers your stats, they want to see Google Analytics. And so I use it to track all my sites. Is it better than Awstats? That is another debate.
Hi Ferdinand, Thank you for your reply. Me too notice that many people ask for google analytics when they are looking at a site that is listed for auction or selling. I just don't get it though. Why is the data between those two gap so differently? Is there any accurate data software or app out there that we can use to determine our site stats? Like yesterday, When I was browsing flippa I found couple listed sites that only put aw stats as their data record and found that they do not have traffic like mine (just about 600-700 unique visitor each month) yet one of them claim to have around $120-$150/month from adsense. While I who have around 5000-6000 unique visitor just have $20-$25/month from adsense. ??? And if I check my site stats from google analytics it tells me that my unique visitor is just 1000-1750/month ??? You see? the gap is so wide and I really don't know what kind of promotion should I do if the analytic data is true.
The main differences between Google Analytics and Awstats are: Google Analytics is more focused on actual business results and therefore appeals more to business people. Awstats is more focused on web logs and so Webmasters and Administrators like it more. Google Analytics uses cookies to track, which is not that accurate, especially because a user can disable them. Awstats uses the server log file to track. The main point is that Google Analytics will give you the needed info to run your online business effectively while Awstats is a good tool to monitor server load etc. I'm sure there are lots of pros and cons to both but I personally like to use a tool that will help me monetise my sites, and that's Google Analytics. I think your problem here is that you might not be getting the right traffic. You need to do proper research and find what your visitors want to buy from you. Just remember that if you walk in to a book store and you are actually looking for car parts, you're not going to buy anything. Think the same way of your visitors, what are they looking for when they come to your site? If you can answer that you'll start to make good money. On the other hand if you are using Adsense to generate income, you need to use keywords that pay well so you'll need to do some research.
awstats is just shit, it give u wrong info, and update not much quicker, google analicitys is so far much improved.
AWStats is a web log analyzer that tells you how many website visitors you've gotten over a specific period of time. Most web hosts allow you configure this very easily. Stop reading this article right now and go install AWStats on your website. If you need help, your web hosting company can help you. Once you have it all working, scroll down to the bottom of the page and you will find keyword phrases people were searching when they found you. That is valuable information. Now you know what keywords are working and you can expand on those keywords. The other method I use is Google Analytics. This is also an awesome tool. One of the best features of Google Analytics is called the bounce rate. The bounce rate is the percentage of visitors that got to your page from a search engine, and then hit the back button without looking at anything else on your site. If you find that 70% or more of your site visitors are leaving without viewing your content, then you know that you need to make some improvements. Thanks.
These couple weeks I have try both sources to improve my site ranking or just to get better traffic to my site. I come to a conclusion that google analytics is far more better than awstats because we can get every details of data we need to get better rank site. These data such as visitors, keywords, content and many more is surely features that we cannot find in awstats.
In my opinion Analytics provides more information and better tracking of site visitors. You can set goals in analytics, see user behavior, bounce rates etc
actually every search engine has its own algorithm so there may be difference between them but you should follow google analytic
Funny thing is we can use both of the analytics data. As per those who would like to sell their site, some people tend to ask for the analytics data and rarely people asking for awstats data. This can be a huge score since the trends is always on the analytic.