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I started using Google Analytics Jan 27, 2008 to Sept 10. Google is strict on how it tracks visits. I have another program and it logs everything and shows us hitting way more than that. I trust Googles results.

If anyone wants to read up on it, you can goto http://www.google.com/analytics/

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[SIZE=+0] Why does Google Analytics report different values than some other web analytics solutions? [/SIZE]

Different web analytics products may use a variety of methods to track visits to your website. Therefore, it is normal to see discrepancies between reports created by various products. However, we generally believe that the best way to think of metrics across different web analytics programs is think in terms of trends, as opposed to numbers by themselves.
One example is to compare related metrics, such as pageviews (eg. 15% of traffic went to page x). In addition, the comparison of data over time could be valuable - information such as "conversions increased by 20% over the past 3 months," or "our site gained 10% more pageviews in the month of March." In most cases, you'll notice that different analytics solutions, though different in numbers, will generally depict the same trends.
While we're not able to provide side-by-side comparisons of Google Analytics with other web tracking solutions, the following list points out some of the main reasons your actual numbers may differ:

• Terminology: The terminology used in one program may not mean the same thing or may not be measured the same way as in another program. Pageviews are generally similar between vendors; however, it's much more difficult to define a visit or a visitor. In Analytics, if a user comes to your site twice within thirty minutes without closing their browser, they'll register as one visit. Other web analytics solutions may treat this behavior as two visits, depending on their definitions.
• Tracking methods: There are two main methods of tracking activity: cookie-based and IP + User Agent.
  • Cookie-based tracking relies on a browser setting the cookie. If cookies are disabled, cookie-based analytics programs (such as Google Analytics) will not count the visit. This would exclude, for example, hits from a robot or spider.
  • IP + User Agent tracking typically uses log file analysis for its data. This may report higher numbers than reported by cookie-based tracking because of dynamically assigned IP addresses and spider and robot visits.
• 1st party vs. 3rd party cookies: Even among cookie-based tracking solutions, there's a difference between 1st party and 3rd party cookies. Because 3rd party cookies are set by a source other than the website being visited, they're often blocked by browsers and security software. Google Analytics uses 1st party cookies.
• 3rd party images: Some browsers give users the option to disable images that are requested from domains other than the current page. Disabling such images will prevent data from being sent to Google Analytics.
• Filters/settings: Many web analytics solutions provide data filters. Differences in the way that filters are applied, or creating different filtering altogether, can drastically affect the data in your reports
• Timezone differences: If your web analytics solutions group data using different timezones, your daily or hourly data will be affected.
• Visitor browser preferences: Visitors must have JavaScript, images, and cookies enabled in their browsers in order for Analytics to report their visit. Depending on their method of collecting data, other analytics solutions may still register these visitors.
• Caching: Google Analytics directly calls Google's servers each time a page is visited, even if the page has been cached. Other analytics solutions may not record an additional visit if the page is pulled from a user's or server's cache.

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[SIZE=+0] What's the difference between clicks, visits, visitors, pageviews, and unique pageviews? [/SIZE]

The visitor data in your Analytics account can be easy to misinterpret due to the many similar terms used in different reports. Below you'll find a more detailed explanation of the terms that most often lead to questions.

• Clicks vs. Visits
• Visits vs. Visitors
• Pageviews vs. Unique Pageviews

Clicks vs. Visits

There is an important distinction between clicks (such as in your AdWords Campaigns reports) and visits (in your Search Engines and Visitors reports report). The clicks column in your reports indicates how many times your advertisements were clicked by visitors, while visits indicates the number of unique sessions initiated by your visitors. There are several reasons why these two numbers may not match:

• A visitor may click your ad multiple times. When one person clicks on one advertisement multiple times in the same session, AdWords will record multiple clicks while Analytics recognizes the separate pageviews as one visit. This is a common behavior among visitors engaging in comparison shopping.

• A user may click on an ad, and then later, during a different session, return directly to the site through a bookmark. The referral information from the original visit will be retained in this case, so the one click will result in multiple visits.

• A visitor may click on your advertisement, but prevent the page from fully loading by navigating to another page or by pressing their browser's Stop button. In this case, the Analytics tracking code is unable to execute and send tracking data to the Google servers. However, AdWords will still register a click.

• To ensure more accurate billing, Google AdWords automatically filters invalid clicks from your reports. However, Analytics reports these clicks as visits to your website in order to show the complete set of traffic data.

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Visits vs. Visitors

Analytics measures both visits and visitors in your account. Visits represent the number of individual sessions initiated by all the visitors to your site. If a user is inactive on your site for 30 minutes or more, any future activity will be attributed to a new session. Users that leave your site and return within 30 minutes will be counted as part of the original session.
The initial session by a user during any given date range is considered to be an additional visit and an additional visitor. Any future sessions from the same user during the selected time period are counted as additional visits, but not as additional visitors.
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Pageviews vs. Unique Pageviews

A pageview is defined as a view of a page on your site that is being tracked by the Analytics tracking code. If a visitor hits reload after reaching the page, this will be counted as an additional pageview. If a user navigates to a different page and then returns to the original page, a second pageview will be recorded as well.
A unique pageview, as seen in the Top Content report, aggregates pageviews that are generated by the same user during the same session. A unique pageview represents the number of sessions during which that page was viewed one or more times.
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