Correct statistics ?

  • Resolved R2Y Mediamatik

    (@r2ymedia)


    1 year, 1 month ago

    Hi there

    We are an agency based in Zürich. For all our websites we use Kokos analytics wich is a very cool plugin!

    Recently I checked the statistics for the year 2023. Kokos is showing around 4000 visitors for the whole year.

    Comparing the data with the hosting statistics of Infomaniak we discovered that there are much more visitors > around 100000 !!

    Could you explain why there is such an difference in the data?

    We are a bit surprised that the data of Kokos Analytics seems not to be correct!
    Do you have any idea about?

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  • Plugin Author Danny van Kooten

    (@dvankooten)

    Hello @r2ymedia,

    Couple of reasons I can think of:

    • Infomaniak might be counting bots, whereas Koko Analytics excludes these.
    • Your website receives a lot of visitors with an ad-blocker installed. Despite Koko Analytics being privacy-friendly and only storing aggregated counts, it’s still included on a popular ad-block filter list (called “EasyPrivacy”) which a lot of ad-blockers use. Therefore, anyone using an ad-blocker will not be counted by Koko Analytics.

    Personally I think reason #1 accounts for the majority here, as there is a lot of traffic by bots these days (ie search engines, AI language models, web scrapers). For your webhost this traffic is relevant because it is still eating into your/their bandwidth, but for Koko Analytics it usually isn’t.

    As long as you are comparing apples to apples, I wouldn’t worry about it. Ie compare Koko Analytics numbers to previous Koko Analytics numbers and not to other tools.

    Regards,
    Danny

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