Comments on: WordPress Stats twice as good as Google Analytics?

By: Connor Rowe

Connor Rowe — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 20:48:08 +0000

We found that for June 2011 we had ~2800 “pageviews” in GA and ~1900 “views” in wordpress stats. we chock this up to the fact that wordpress will (maybe?) know not to count us when we are logged in as wordpress users/admins, but GA doesn’t know this, so whenever an authenticated user is browsing their site wordpress knows not to count, while GA just collects the js. anyone know that this is not the case?

By: Sadek

Sadek — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:39:50 +0000

Great discussion is going on.but i statpress more than GA.

By: That guy.

That guy. — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:40:01 +0000

I found on wordpress that if you log out and refresh the page, it will still count it as a view. Isn’t this a MAJOR flaw?

By: Dick Whyte

Dick Whyte — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 03:35:28 +0000

Actually – I have found that my WordPress stats are more than twice my Google Analytics numbers. The reason is, I believe, that WordPress counts Google image searches even when they don’t come to the page, while Google Analytics doesn’t count those. Google Analytics shows a variety of pages being visited as well, but WordPress stats shows a limited amount of pages being viewed – they are WAY OFF each other.

My theory was that everytime Google Image Search accesses your site to make a thumbnail image, WordPress stats records that as a page view, while Google Analytics does not. Does anyone know if this could or would be true??

Sorry for posting so late in the thread.

By: Will

Will — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 12:36:17 +0000

I have a similar problem with Statpress. Its showing 100% more traffic than Google Analytics.

When you say:
[quote]Wordpress Stats shows the views and Google Analytics show the visits.[/quote]
You are incorrect! Statpress shows the visits and page views as does Google Analytics. So the mystery continues!

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By: Stuck Serving

Stuck Serving — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:29:47 +0000

Thank you for the clarification!

By: Zeya

Zeya — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 08:42:53 +0000

Update:

In addition to Stats i have now installed Wassup.

While i still cant speak for GA, i must say that i am amazed by what Wassup offers. Not only are views recorded as separate from visits (as discussed in my previous post), but specific visitors can actually be tracked via an internal googlemap all the way down to a streetview of the address from which they are accessing your site. Its totally awesome, and totally creepy. Big brother is alive and well, and hes watching over my website…

By: felipe.lv

felipe.lv — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 02:24:53 +0000

GA records both viewers and page views, but even so you’ll likely get two different results with GA and WordPress Stats… what you should ultimately be looking at is the trends rather than brute numbers

By: Zeya

Zeya — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:44:08 +0000

I am curious about this issue also, given that I am using WordPress stats on m newly constructed website and have been getting curious and unsatisfactory results.

It has already been documented here and elsewhere that Stats and GA provide measurements of entirely different things. As i understand it GA tracks the number of individuals viewers who access your site, while Stats tracks the number of times each viewer clicks on a page or even refreshes it.

In my case, I am running the WP theme Atahualpa, which has a header image that rotates to a new photo each time the the main page (or any sub page) is refreshed. Because the photos that rotate through are good and my viewers want to see them all, one viewer my refresh the page or repeatedly click the header photo any number of times. Given that the order of the rotating photos is random and not linear, a viewer could potentially have to click through 100 times to view all 25 or so photos. And as i understand it, Stats will measure this in its graphing as 100 views, rather simply keeping track of the fact that one person visited and refreshed the main page 100 times. This leads to a gross distortion of data if what one wants to track is their total number of viewers. My site has only been up for 4 or 5 days, but for example two days ago Stats recorded 143 views when i am pretty certain only 5-10 people visited the site.

So…does anyone know if GA will provide a more accurate measure of VIEWERS, rather than views?

Thanks! The site in question is http://www.zeyaschindler.com, if anyone wants a visual example.