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I cross checked all the pages of the site and analytcs code is available on all of them. Has anybody else ever noticed this problem?
Is there any other s/w that I can use to track down the traffic. Is there any s/w which gives us the liverage to track down the traffic of more than 1 site to 1 subscriber.
Every analytic solution will return different results because they all count traffic differently.
The big difference between log files and Google Analytics is that Google Analytics does not count spiders & automated robots. Log files include traffic from googlebot and googlebot is not included in the Google Analytic numbers.
When you compare traffic reports from different sources a possible mismatch of numbers can come from users using non-javascript supporting browsers. This is normally a very small amount.
I don't worry about the small differences in reports. I look at the general trends.
I have noticed this issue with another site where the traffic is being tracked by SmaterStats software and it shows lot of discrepancies in google analytics data. Are these traffic tracking s/w are not good enough to be used? Is there any other alternative to google analytics in case there is a requirement to track down traffic for many websites?
Server log files will record all accesses, but the numbers are polluted with visits from bots.
Other products may exclude bots from the count, but miss people visiting the site with JavaScript turned off.
No two products will ever agree. Look at the trends not at the actual numbers.
Please help!
Trends would be the best way after the log files (if you can filter the bots data from it)
By the way, JS-based counters can easily count visitors with JS disabled. All they need to do is put an image inside a <noscript> tag and analyse the image request. I never understood why GA doesn't do that.
