Yakezie.com - Topic: Wordpress stat and google Analytics mismatch

Untemplater on Wordpress stat and google Analytics mismatch

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:19:40 +0000

Suba @ Wealth Informatics said:

Here are some reasons why they are different -

Wordpress stats measure only page views. Google measures everything, so if you are looking at the first screen in GA vs WS, WS would be a lot more.

GA is cookie based, so if the visitor has cookies disabled you won't record that visitor.

(I don't remember which one, but one of them) don't count PDFs, word docs as pages... if you have them.

WS sometimes counts the bots as visitors, GA is much cleverer in this area.

If your site is slow, it will take time for google analytics to load, so if the visitor leaves before the GA code loads, it won't be recorded but WS would have recorded it.

Pick one, GA is much much reliable so if it were me I would pick that, and stick with it.

That's interesting that GA is cookie based. I had no idea! Good to know about the importance of site speed for GA too. Never thought about speed from a GA perspective but makes sense. Hopefully none of our sites will ever be slow enough to lose readers!

NoDebtMBA on Wordpress stat and google Analytics mismatch

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 11:01:12 +0000

My sitemeter, blogger, and analytics counts all differ I know for two big reasons,

1. start date

2. I haven't set up analytics to ignore my own visits and I can't remember if sitemeter ignores my SO's visits. Blogger ignores both.

Are there other reasons the counts might be different for the same metric like visitors or page views?

Suba @ Wealth Informatics on Wordpress stat and google Analytics mismatch

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 12:41:59 +0000

Here are some reasons why they are different -

Wordpress stats measure only page views. Google measures everything, so if you are looking at the first screen in GA vs WS, WS would be a lot more.

GA is cookie based, so if the visitor has cookies disabled you won't record that visitor.

(I don't remember which one, but one of them) don't count PDFs, word docs as pages... if you have them.

WS sometimes counts the bots as visitors, GA is much cleverer in this area.

If your site is slow, it will take time for google analytics to load, so if the visitor leaves before the GA code loads, it won't be recorded but WS would have recorded it.

Pick one, GA is much much reliable so if it were me I would pick that, and stick with it.

The College Investor on Wordpress stat and google Analytics mismatch

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 12:29:59 +0000

I also thought wordpress stats measured pageviews of just wordpress posts and pages. Analytics measures visitors and everything.

Sustainable PF on Wordpress stat and google Analytics mismatch

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 11:15:33 +0000

Trust analytics, don't trust the word press plugin. They have never matched for us but i'll take Google's opinion

OneCentAtatime on Wordpress stat and google Analytics mismatch

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 10:21:19 +0000

Have you experience the gap between wordpress stat and google analytics reports? Forget about number of hits or viewes, even the search queries differ almost daily.Some of the queries I can see on my wordpress stat page, do not appear on end of the day analytics report.

It is true other way too. not for every records, but I do have multiple occurances every day.

Any answer from any one?