Comments on: a note about statistics http://www.evolution-nextstep.com/archives/1635 take the next step Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:41:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: j.d. http://www.evolution-nextstep.com/archives/1635/comment-page-1#comment-800 j.d. Thu, 17 Feb 2005 00:33:19 +0000 http://www.evolution-nextstep.net/archives/2005/02/15/a-note-about-statistics/#comment-800 Awstats keeps track of visits, page views, and hits separately, and doesn't count bots. My stats logs say I've had about 21,000 visits since June of '04. Awstats keeps track of visits, page views, and hits separately, and doesn’t count bots. My stats logs say I’ve had about 21,000 visits since June of ‘04.

]]> By: David Smith http://www.evolution-nextstep.com/archives/1635/comment-page-1#comment-799 David Smith Wed, 16 Feb 2005 22:52:53 +0000 http://www.evolution-nextstep.net/archives/2005/02/15/a-note-about-statistics/#comment-799 When people say that Site Meter is under reporting, they are usually comparing Site Meter "visits" to something like "hits" or "page views" on their internal logs. If you can get your logs to only report the pages view counts for the pages where you've added the Site Meter counter and you remove any page views that were generated by spiders, it should be within about 5% of Site Meter's "page view" count for your site. Here is a page that may help with the comparison. http://www.sitemeter.com/?action=help&area=COMPARE When people say that Site Meter is under reporting, they are usually comparing Site Meter “visits” to something like “hits” or “page views” on their internal logs. If you can get your logs to only report the pages view counts for the pages where you’ve added the Site Meter counter and you remove any page views that were generated by spiders, it should be within about 5% of Site Meter’s “page view” count for your site. Here is a page that may help with the comparison.

http://www.sitemeter.com/?action=help&area=COMPARE

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