Conflicting Stats

dnawakeup said 1 year, 2 months ago:

Hi

I have only been using Site Analytics for about a month after having a huge spike in numbers I wanted to find out why. But when I compare my hitcounter on the webpages with SiteA they are vastly different & then when I add in my Adcenter clicks it varies again. On March 6th hitcounter said 897 with SA stats of 672 with 24 unique visitors & 32 total visitors. Other days have March 9 has 266 hits on hitcounter but only 13 page views on SA.

I have days where Adcenter says it has 13 clicks but SA says I have only had 4 pageviews etc. How can I work this stuff out? What can I trust? I was averaging 100-300 hits a day according to hitcounter in Feb but after a spike I purchased SA and since then my stats have been going down drastically. On the 20 Mar my SA pageviews say 16 but my hitcounter says 53 & my unique visitors says 7 but Adcenter says it sent 9 to the site (I would assume all unique).

Also my heat & pinpoint overlays do not work. The heat continually tries to load & the pinpoint doesn’t show anything.

I find this whole godaddy experience very frustrating at times (I already wrote this post a few days ago but alas it disappeared into the abyss & I didn’t save it).

I have had nothing but trouble with website tonight formatting problems like changing a font or font color…How hard it that? Apparently quite hard at times and then others it works perfectly.

My site is dnawakeup.com
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PS….This is now the third time I am trying to post this….luckily I saved it this time…. HOW do you say “FRUSTRATED”…???

sergiop said 1 year, 2 months ago:

@dnawakeup

If you have enabled realtime statistics then the reports should not vary if they do then you may not have real time statistics enabled on a certain page. Enabling real-time stats alone is not enough to collect data from your entire site. You must also add the real-time JavaScript to each page you want to track. So, if you want real-time statistics for your entire site, you must include the real-time JavaScript on every page of your website.

As for your Website Tonight issue do you receive any specific errors when you try to make the formatting changes?

Rgds,
Sergio P

Nate D said 1 year, 2 months ago:

@dnawakeup – All of the stats will have slight differences. What I notice on your page is there are a lot of resources for visitors to download including various JavaScripts, and the scripts that are tracking visitors are in different places. So you may be seeing more differences than usual from visitors “giving up” in-between loading the different scripts.

dnawakeup said 1 year, 2 months ago:

Hi Sergio

I have the real time stats enabled and the script on every page. I also have the hitcounter on each page. Which should I believe?

Website tonight never gives any error messages only non-functioning formatting, sometimes when I sign out & then sign back in it works better but the program itself seems faulty at best.

Is hitcounter correct in recording hits?

dnawakeup said 1 year, 2 months ago:

Hi Nate

Thanks for your input, as I am new to Website tonight & site analytics I am not sure by what you mean with ‘resources for visitors to download including various JavaScripts, and the scripts that are tracking visitors are in different places’ and ‘visitors “giving up” in-between loading the different script’.

Do you mean the Amazon widgets & aweber opt-in forms? The scripts being in different places??? what does that mean? And visitors giving up? Do you mean leaving the pages before they pages load correctly/are they loading too slowly?

thanks for your help.

Nate D said 1 year, 2 months ago:

Yes, the Widgets and other scripts are additional resources that the visitors computer needs to download from a different domain to display your website right. It appears that there is content between the different tracking scripts so there is a chance of a visitor “giving up” between them being activated.

I used that phrase to generalize any action the visitor could take to stop the page from loading. So this could be the visitor leaving the site all together, the internet connection timing out, even the visitor navigation to a different page on your site before the first page finishes loading, or anything in between.

In general it is a good idea to keep the “behind-the-scenes” (that you do not see on the page) scripts at the very bottom of the page. As well as always consider the trade off of slower loading times with each JavaScript you add from an external source.

dnawakeup said 1 year, 2 months ago:

Perfect…Thanks Nate for that explanation. I will definitely reconsider my content placement. I appreciate you adding to my query.

Lynne

dnawakeup said 1 year, 2 months ago:

Still no reply on Heat/Pinpoint problem?

dnawakeup said 1 year, 2 months ago:

Can I get anymore answers from Godaddy on these problems?

Baillee said 1 year, 2 months ago:

@dnawakeup

I’m not able to duplicate the Overlay issues that you explained. It may be browser related. Try using a different browser and see if you have the same issues.

- Baillee

victoriavixen said 1 year, 2 months ago:

perhaps you forgot to exclude your own ip adress so u are seeing your own data included

Baillee said 1 year, 2 months ago:

@victoriavixen

That is possible! Thanks for reminding us.

Baillee

comicserver said 9 months, 4 weeks ago:

Can someone tell me were to put my IP address to exclude my stats from Sute Analytics? I also don’t know if I can trust it and have wondered about placing third party code into already bulky pages (comic-strip.org)which I am stuffing with basic heavy graphics and links to silly pages to try at least to generate donations; I don’t see my town come up in any reports so I must be already “auto-excluded” which is something I’d like to chose, I think. I’d like better location reports, such as I get with Google Analytics for free blog pages. Can I load both GoDaddy and Google into same page?

comicserver said 9 months, 4 weeks ago:

For example, almost everyday I see the following 3 visitor groups:
POUGHKEEPSIE, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES 20 68.97
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, UNITED STATES 7 24.14
CONWAY, ARKANSAS, UNITED STATES 2 6.90

does this mean I have 20 UNIQUE visitors fully committed to viewing my site, everyday, or that I/Me am going through the Network Hub that my carrier TimeWarner is using, so I am reading my data? To try to figure this out easily from within Site Analytics is like pulling teeth. I know I am rusty, have ADHD and probably visually impaired, but how can IP’s be pulled out of this, if at all? And if not IP’s and I have 20 visitations from X Visitors in Poughkeepsie, how do I figure out if this is case? Same question . . .