would like to know some answers about google anayltics, my site seems to have a decline of about 99% traffic in the last 2 weeks, the site [link removed] has been optimized, advertised in many search engines and even promoted offline and I can assure you that the tracking code is placed in all pages, however google analytics indicates that the visitors have gone from an average of 200 a day to about 5, I was getting very depressed to know that the moon gets more human visitors than my site but I checked the log files and I found that there are still many more than what google says I get, I get at least 40 or 50 a day, a lot less but no the way analytics describes in the reports, why is this happening, why there is a big different in uniques count between my logs and anaylitics? Is google losing track? is there a trick to make me buy more traffic feeling that I need more visitors? this is very weird, what do you think, please check out my site, perhaps there is something else wrong with it, I really appreciate your help, thank you, Jenny
Yes, Google Analytics works fine, at least it does on my website. I've tried other tracking software and Google Analytics seems to give me the best results.
there are different traffic monitoring tool available in the other than google analytics. why not try statcounter and awstats if you are not satisfied in analytics? In my case, I used analytics and statcounter at the same time and having to compare the two.
I use both analytics and awstats - then take the average of the two. I don't think any traffic counter / analytic system is going to be 100% accurate, but if you have at least two and average them you should get a fairly accurate assessment.
I use both analytics and awstats - then take the average of the two. I don't think any traffic counter / analytic system is going to be 100% accurate, but if you have at least two and average them you should get a fairly accurate assessment.
Whatever your hosting company has for stats will be the most reliable. That said, some are useless as they do not really tell you anything.
I do like awstats for our site. not the most comprehensive, they do tell me where people come from and what keyterms they use. Unfortunately it does not give you up to the minutes stats and they are a day behind (mine anyway.)
I do use statcounter but have found they inflate the numbers where the visitor has JS enabled. Where the visitor does not, they do not count them at all.
I have my own stat counter, each page records a hit, referrer address, users IP, cookies I placed on their site etc.
Google analytics picks up every person that visits but it also picks up some spiders and crawlers (Only some) it seems that some spiders like swift or something like that create sessions and cookies as they crawl.
It's really better to use two analytics programs. Google's doesn't deliver live stats, but it has many good parts. If you want to know what happens on your site NOW you should probably go for a paid program.
Google Analytics, does it really work?
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