Google Analytical vs AWStat

[globalcashsite]

Guys

I have two different figures of my site globalcashsite.com from 1st July - 12 July (today)

Google = 164 visits
AWStat = 178 visitors

Does not problem small difference, right.

The problem is Google Analytical shows that I have bounce rate of 57.93%. When I studied more then I find that bounce rate means visitor did nothing and closed site without doing any thing. It means almost 95 visitors out of 164 (63 left) closed my site without doing any thing further. It means they did not like my site and closed it and they are not interested to come back again.

And AWStat shows that out of 178 visitors, 142 visitors (79.70%) (35 left who did not added my site to their favorite) added my site to their browser favorites. It means they liked my site and planned to visit back in future.

There is much difference in both figures. Which figure is more accurate?

Is AWStat figure accurate, if yes then I think my site is good almost 80% visitors of my site planned to come back that is goo ratio? What do you think?

GlobalCashSite

[jgalty]

Nothing is going to be 100% accurate but i would take a average of both.

[dubscrub]

There will always be a difference. Google does not count their bot in the traffic totals so that will lead to a difference in many cases.

[globalcashsite]

Guys

But what about actual question

Bounce vs Adding to Favorite?

GCS

[htmlbasictutor]

Bounce rate is the percentage of single-page visits or visits in which the person left your site from the entrance (landing) page. Use this metric to measure visit quality - a high bounce rate generally indicates that site entrance pages aren't relevant to your visitors...

Reference: What does Bounce Rate mean? - Google Analytics Help

Add To Favourites:
This value, available in the "miscellanous chart", reports an estimated indicator that can be used to have an idea of the number of times a visitor has added your web site into its favourite bookmarks.

The technical rules for that is the following formula:
Number of Add to Favourites = round((x+y) / r)
where
x = Number of hits made by IE browsers for "/anydir/favicon.ico", with a referer field not defined, and with no 404 error code
y = Number of hits made by IE browsers for "/favicon.ico", with a referer field not defined, with or without 404 error code
r = Ratio of hits made by IE browsers compared to hits made by all browsers (r <= 1)

As you can see in formula, only IE is used to count reliable "add", the "Add to favourites" for other browsers are estimated using ratio of other browsers usage compared to ratio of IE usage. The reason is that only IE do a hit on favicon.ico nearly ONLY when a user add the page to its favourites. The other browsers make often hits on this file also for other reasons so we can't count one "hit" as one "add" since it might be a hit for another reason.
AWStats differentiate also hits with error and not to avoid counting multiple hits made recursively in upper path when favicon.ico file is not found in deeper directory of path.

Note that this number is just an indicator that is in most case higher than true value. The reason is that even IE browser sometimes make hit on favicon without an "Add to favourites" action by a user.

Reference: AWStats Documentation - Glossary

[belgy]

Originally Posted by dubscrub

There will always be a difference. Google does not count their bot in the traffic totals so that will lead to a difference in many cases.

That's try,even awstats generate from all bots,but google makes more powerful they analytic script

[marrya]

SO ARE YOU ASKING WHICH ONE IS GOOD OR COMPARISON YOU WANT

[globalcashsite]

Originally Posted by marrya

SO ARE YOU ASKING WHICH ONE IS GOOD OR COMPARISON YOU WANT

Yes I want to know if I can believe on AWStat of Google. If AWStat are correct then I am happy that so many people added my site to their favorite means they planned to visit back. At early stage that is big success for me.

But on other side Google figures are also alarming because Bounce rate is high.

I am confused which one is correct?

GCS

[Platinvm]

Awstats is crap there numbers are way off, analytics is very accurate and way more advanced.

[deezines]

Originally Posted by Platinvm

Awstats is crap there numbers are way off, analytics is very accurate and way more advanced.

To say AW stats are 'crap' is unfair at best, and foolish at worse.

It is highly respected by most serious SEO metrics operators, but is used IN TANDEM with other measurments, such a GA.

Furthermore, I would always prefer to measure my own stats, than have a third party, aka google, do it for me.
Call me cynical if you like, but thats the way I feel.

Google is way too powerful, way too overbearing, and way too intrusive into peoples browsing habits for my liking.

[marrya]

hey i will sugest you to use stat counter and get the exact which one is the best you will now

[seocornamedia]

My Friends.... I'm using only google analytics for counting visitors....not using AWStat for website status.....
so My view google analytics is give accurate results...........

[SEO.Expert]

I have personally been using Awstats on all of my websites for over 8 years now.

Recently I added Analytics to a few of my websites and I noticed that the results from both options differ.

I think Awstats and Google Analytics both offer very reliable information about website traffic.

[htmlbasictutor]

Originally Posted by SEO.Expert

Recently I added Analytics to a few of my websites and I noticed that the results from both options differ.

Because Analytics is javascript driven. Anything that can't process javascript isn't counted, including those who have scripting turned off, screen readers and some mobile phones.

[host1plus]

Originally Posted by htmlbasictutor

Because Analytics is javascript driven. Anything that can't process javascript isn't counted, including those who have scripting turned off, screen readers and some mobile phones.

Exactly, totally agree

[mozareli]

Google Analyticsis very advanced and more competitive than other

[Icedout]

I hear good analytics is the most accurate, but I use AW stats. It's easy to implement on my server and it's accurate enough.

[kokkada]

I use mybloglog and google analytics....

Mybloglog show less traffic compare to google analytics.

Google provide accurate results?

[vhinz316]

I'm using Google Analytical and i think this is much more accurate than aWstat based from my own experienced.

[jamesparker]

For the accuracy it is simple that Google Analytic is the best!