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Different number of visits when comparing Performancing with AwStats

Posted by Marshall on August 31, 2006 | Link It

For my last blog in the month of August 2006 I’m covering the difference between two popular web analytics packages in how they define "visits" to a site.

No two web analytics programs will count traffic in exactly the same way - and usually, even two versions of the same web analytics programs count traffic differently. I was reminded of that today when I got hold of my web stats for another blog during all of August using AwStats.

At the same time, I started using Performacing about 2 weeks ago.

While I started the Art blog 2 months ago and the traffic is beginning to pick up - the two packages I’m comparing count visits differently; the top numbers are from AwStats while the bottom is from Performacing.

Honestly, which numbers would you follow? Why?

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09/01/06 @ 5:05 pm

Although we use AWStats on thousands of sites I am not a big fan. It seems to count everything as a visit. Performancing does not do a good job of counting returning visitors and Statcounter has trouble with AOL. I guess I like Statcounter best. The best part of Statcounter is that you can follow paths.If you have a new blog and you are wondering if you are getting hundreds of visits from AWStats or tens of visits from Performancing, I would lean toward the later.