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I've been meaning to check something for a while, with regard to my Google analytics account and my Livebooks webstats page, because without even looking closely, I noticed they never show the same amount of visitors, ever, as each other.
Not once, ever. And I wondered why this might be.
For May here are my daily visit statistics from Google analytics and Livebooks webstats respectively, starting on the first date of the Month:
May 1 Google - 2
May 1 Livebooks - 9
May 2 Google - 2
May 2 Livebooks - 3
May 3 Google - 6
May 3 Livebooks - 8
May 4 Google - 7
May 4 Livebooks - 11
May 5 Google - 15
May 5 Livebooks - 18
May 6 Google - 25
May 6 Livebooks - 19
May 7 Google - 6
May 7 Livebooks - 10
In April, the gaps appear to be even greater.
April 1 Google - 10
April 1 Livebooks - 21
April 2 Google - 9
April 2 Livebooks - 17
April 3 Google - 9
April 3 Livebooks - 11
April 4 Google - 2
April 4 Livebooks - 8
April 5 Google - 5
April 5 Livebooks - 13
April 6 Google - 10
April 6 Livebooks - 16
April 7 Google - 18
April 7 Google - 27
Anybody got any ideas?
Any help appreciated, thank you,
Andy.
I’m
confused.
Why are Livebooks webstats always different to Google Analytics stats?
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The two stats systems work a bit differently:
AWstats, a tracking system previously offered and still available to legacy clients, is installed on our servers and tracks nearly every file being accessed on the server. The higher number of hits can be attributed to the tracking on source files, directories, and bots crawling the site.
Google Analytics works by replicating a snippet of code on all pages of the HTML portion of your site. As a viewer navigates, GA gets pinged with every page change, homepage, contact page, every image in every portfolio, ect. GA is counting page views and navigation in a fundamental sense, and does not count any other content. GA also offers rich features in terms of drilling down and searching for content, mapping trends, and visualization.
For users who would like to find out more information about Google Analytics, or to sign up for a free account, please visit the following link:
http://www.google.com/analytics/
A brief tutorial for installing Google Analytics into your liveBooks site is available here:
http://forum.livebooks.com/livebooks/topics/how_do_i_incorporate_google_analytics_tracking_code_into_my_site
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The two stats systems work a bit differently:
AWstats, a tracking system previously offered and still available to legacy clients, is installed on our servers and tracks nearly every file being accessed on the server. The higher number of hits can be attributed to the tracking on source files, directories, and bots crawling the site.
Google Analytics works by replicating a snippet of code on all pages of the HTML portion of your site. As a viewer navigates, GA gets pinged with every page change, homepage, contact page, every image in every portfolio, ect. GA is counting page views and navigation in a fundamental sense, and does not count any other content. GA also offers rich features in terms of drilling down and searching for content, mapping trends, and visualization.
For users who would like to find out more information about Google Analytics, or to sign up for a free account, please visit the following link:
http://www.google.com/analytics/
A brief tutorial for installing Google Analytics into your liveBooks site is available here:
http://forum.livebooks.com/livebooks/topics/how_do_i_incorporate_google_analytics_tracking_code_into_my_siteComment -
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This is very helpful, thank you Jericho.
What I want to know is how many of the photographs on my site are being looked at. I assume they're on different pages are they, technically speaking? So each page view equals somebody looking at a photograph on my site.
So which would be more accurate in telling me how many times somebody has looked at the photographs I have on my site please? GA or Livebooks webstats.
Thank you again,
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I’m
hoping this all makes sense
I would have to say that in terms of real world visitor tracking Analytics is going to give you a better sense of actual page views.
The way we have things set up is that each of the 32 available portfolio pages counts as one 'page' in terms of Google Analytics tracking. When you go into Analytics and do a content drill down it pretty clearly shows the number of hits for each page/image. This is where having descriptive file names helps. Not only for SEO, but for your own tracking as well. -
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Thanks Jericho it does.
Andy. -
