Wordpress and traffic analysis

Stats reported by Google Analytics and Awstats a bit puzzling for me. Awstats reports about 6 times as many unique visitors. I don't know how many are reading the feed and if Awstats are simply counting those but even that's the case 6 times as much traffic would be an awful lot.

 

AWstats reads every event on your site, no matter where. Analytics only records those events where you stuck the tracker code.

 

Still strange to me that the number of uniques reported differ by so much.

 

You'll have to look up their definitions of 'unique'. Some programs like StatCounter let you define it by a number of hours. Most log parsers count one unique as a session, until they leave the site (referrer is not the same site anymore).

 

Yes, AWStats will count the feeds as pages in WordPress with nice URL's.

To exclude the feeds, use the SkipFiles directive :

SkipFiles="REGEX[\/feed\/]"

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Jean-Luc

 

I am starting to suspect that analytics (and also statcounter...tried both) for some reason are not working properly. I can be online for two hours hand counting visitors using the "users online" feature in Wordpress and I will have a visitor number much higher than both analytics and statcounter reports for a full 24 hours.

And no I am not counting spiders.