[Plugin: WassUp] Wassup VS Google Analytics

  • Google Analytics and wassup details are not matching. They vary dramatically.

    Here is the statistics for last 1 month for total number of visitors.
    – Google Analytics = 42,738
    – Wass up = 64,376

    This is a huge difference. So I changed the reporting mode in wass up to “No spam, no spider”
    – Google Analytics = 42,738
    – Wass up = 53,463

    It is still a huge number. I was expecting some difference in number because not all the visitors have java script on. So it will cause reduced number in Google Analytics. But this variation is huge.

    Any suggestions?

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  • The source of the stats difference is probably the number of feed hits. Many browsers (FF,Safari) now have built-in feed readers that automatically parse your feed when a user visits your site. This would show up as 2 or more hits per visitor even with “no spam/no spider” set because it’s the browser doing the feed parsing not a separate spider.

    Google analytics is probably not recording your feed hits if that javascript is only in your page footer and not in your feed.

    Also, WassUp’s “month” is the past 30 days and may not begin or end with the 1st of the month. This could cause a difference in the numbers, if Google analytics month begins exactly on the 1st.

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