Comments on: Measure Map and Google Analytics

By: nader

nader — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 22:08:12 +0000

Indeed, I think log-based analysis like AwStats, Webalizer and others are more likely to produce false results.

My GA is showing me a bit more info today and the amount of visits for the day have gone up, so I’m actually pretty happy that GA seems more reliable data-wise and is presenting it in a more useful way.

I’ve inserted the code for my other projects and looking forward to find out the true visits-rate there

By: Tom Markiewicz

Tom Markiewicz — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 21:20:17 +0000

I agree with your last comment. I just don’t think they’re processing all of the data yet. It started to look like it was flowing in yesterday, but then I look in GA today and there’s no stats for the poast two days. So, despite the fact I keep checking, I’ll have to give them a couple of weeks and then compare.

What’s nice compared to AWstats is that you’ll only be seeing the real web traffic and not as much of the spam botting. And this will provide more usable data. It still looks promising from what I’ve seen so far though.

By: nader

nader — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 15:40:20 +0000

thinking about it again, maybe it’s because a lot of people have turned off javascript but hm, I don’t really think that should matter so much.

It’ll be interesting to see what GA tells me after using it 2 weeks.

By: nader

nader — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 15:38:37 +0000

somebody followed your hint, me

i installed google analytics 30hrs ago or so and only now i got some data for tuesday 11/15.

i also used to check out the stats with AwStats on my own server, then moved http://www.brandinfection.com to mediatemple where I’ve got Urchin.

Interesting and a bit disillusioning after incorporating Google Analytics:

- GA shows half of the visitors my mediatemple’s urchin stats shows
- GA shows 2/3 of the visitors AwStats shows

So who’s “lying”?
GoogleAnalytics, MediaTemple-Urchin or AwStats?

What do you (guys) experience?

Best regards,
Nader