[Web4lib] Google Analytics

[Walt Crawford]

Thanks, John--that's helpful. I'm finding that one site relying on Google
Analytics seems to have lost more than 90% of its traffic (as compared to
internal tracking)--and on my blog, with both Google Analytics and Urchin
(log analysis) enabled, GA shows considerably less than 10% as much traffic
as Urchin. Javascript may account for a chunk of that...

-walt crawford-

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Robert L. Balliot <
rballiot at oceanstatelibrarian.com> wrote:

>
> I have found AWStats to create some very odd results from AOL
> accounts.  If you have a site with over 10K visitors a day, reliable
> aggregate data trumps detail.
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of John Bickar
> Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 12:23 PM
> To: Web4lib at webjunction.org
> Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Google Analytics
>
> Hi all,
>
> I just wanted to add that, although GA is quite powerful and useful, one
> of its limitations is that it it only tracks usage for visitors who have
> Javascript turned on and aren't blocking it for your site.
>
> Comparing and contrasting GA stats with server logs (using something
> such as AWStats for Apache) will yield more reliable data than GA alone.
>
> Also, Google's Webmaster Tools
> <https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/> provides some data that GA
> doesn't.
>
> -John Bickar
> Stanford University Libraries
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