Stats Questions

[kaus]

I have posted before about google analytics not being accurate and I have reinserted my code a dozen times. Finally I had just about given up till talking with a couple other members who belive the same issue is present. I was estimating my traffic with Hittail although I know this an not possibly be fool proof either.

I signed up with my hosting company (GoDaddy) for their traffic analyzer. I just signed in to tak a look although I only set it up yesterday (Slight OCD with stats)

Anyway here is what it is showing

Last 7 Days: Visitors:890
Unique visitors:568
Page views:1,547
Total hits:8,677



So my question here is can this be accurate? Being that it is the hosting company who would have this info anyway would this be an accurate analysis to date....or just their way of estimation even though it says last 7 days.

Thanks

[Jordan]

I dont know which is the BEST out there, but iver heard good things about this site:

xxhttp://www.haveamint.com/

This costs $30 per site though, however if it is the best out there, its probably worth it

I dont actually use this myself so i cant say im speaking from experience but like i say, ive heard a lot of good things about it.

EDIT: im just looking at the features this thing has on the Demo and it looks awesome... might be worth the $30 after all

[kaus]

My stats are accurate. Shows how unreliable the google stats are. Thanks for the tip Jord but I am going to stick with this one it has an abundance of info.

[mftpg]

Fast becoming my favourite PAWer Kaus - each time I read your posts it gets me thinking!!

After reading this one I just did a quick 'snapshot' of www.sitandgoplanet.com for a few days at the end of last month...

July 29th - Google Analytics - 98 Visits - Hosting Co Stats (1&1) 179 visits
July 30th - Google Analytics - 138 - 1&1 - 329
July 31st - Google 177 - 1&1 - 347

Thats one big difference and to be honest I have no idea which one is correct!! Thinking that Google is bad here (the analytics hits never show as many as my affiliate trackers by a long way). Then again 1&1 might be too high... hmm.

Time to look into the subject a little further!

Cheers, Mark

[mftpg]

Looked into this a little... and having some serious doubts about the Google Analytics now. A couple of pieces of evidence

- Yesterday someone linked to an article on 2+2 STT forum which went on to generate considerable debate. Google shows 6 visitors from 2+2. 1&1 shows over 100... there are definitely more than 6 people debating my article!

- Aweber showed me several Hungarian names the other day for my list - but no clue as to where they came from in the Analytics - yet 1&1 shows me loads of hits from a Hungarian website... for those exact days.

Hmmm, anectdotal of course - but looks like the evidence is pointing to Google being the incorrect party.

Cheers, Mark

[Notspot]

I've got a touch of stat OCD as well

At the moment I've got analytics, hittail, webalizer and awstats running and they are ALL different.

Although hittail initially seemed accurate it misses quite a few that analytics picks up. But there again some show up on hittail and not analytics.

I used to be on 1&1 too, they seem to have the most inflated figures, I know they don't separate out the search bot hits.

Once a month we go through all the stats and try to come to some sort of accurate picture, but at the end of the day all it's really giving you is a 'trend'. I have a friend who has a brain the size of a planet and he does something with the 'raw server logs', but even he says it's not 100% accurate.

We reckon analytics is about 30% off for unique visitors. Although the other figures it gives you (time on site, bounce rate, etc) are so useful it's still well worth using.

[kaus]

Well put it this way google reports only 500 vistors for an entire month. There are days it says nothing......which is total BS...

In Godaddy's FAQ regarding traffic facts they say that they keep all inof on adomain hosted through them for 6 month period, when youcovert to tehir stats what you see is not only current but th epast 6 mths on file.

Anyhow at least I know Google sucks