TYPO3-Addict » Statistics http://www.typo3-addict.com For those addicted to TYPO3 Wed, 02 Jun 2010 13:03:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Webalizer vs Google Analytics… who to believe? http://www.typo3-addict.com/2009/10/webalizer-vs-google-analytics-who-to-believe/ http://www.typo3-addict.com/2009/10/webalizer-vs-google-analytics-who-to-believe/#comments Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:06:04 +0000 Maarten http://www.typo3-addict.com/?p=553 We always use Google Analytics for our website statistics, and I always thought this was a good way to go… I just took a look at a websites who also has Webalizer running, the difference is HUGE! For example:

Google Analytics: 126 visits, 248 pageviews
Webalizer: 749 visits, 2169 pageviews

On the same day! How can this be? I read about Webalizer being unreliable due to the fact a visitor can visit from multiple IP’s (proxy) but can that explain this big of a difference? On the other hand I read about GA being unreliably due to the fact it can only track visitors with JavaScript enabled.. but how many people these days don’t have JavaScript?

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