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Marked
msg:4506769 | 6:28 am on Oct 11, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Hi all,
I'm looking at my google analytics panel for my site, in particular a forum topic's pageviews. In google analytics is has the total pageviews as 70. However on the forum itself, the pageviews are at 250.
That's a bit odd?
I have set the total applicable range (including today) when viewing the stats. I can confirm the code is on every page, directly before </head>
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance,
Mark.
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lucy24
msg:4506790 | 7:21 am on Oct 11, 2012 (gmt 0) |
GA is tracking unique pageviews. The forum count includes repeats.
Yes, OK, I just made that up. Prove me wrong ;)
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Marked
msg:4506794 | 7:25 am on Oct 11, 2012 (gmt 0) |
But there is both "pageviews" and "unique pageviews" ? They're side-by-side everywhere in GA.
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g1smd
msg:4506796 | 7:32 am on Oct 11, 2012 (gmt 0) |
The forum count probably includes bots. The GA count does not.
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Marked
msg:4506819 | 8:49 am on Oct 11, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Oh, the difference will be that large with bot views?
I tried to find a big gap with one of my topics:
Forum count: 3,466
GA count: 196
Counting from a specific date range, total topic views:
Forums: 3million
GA: 100,000
Is it normal for bots to push the number out so far? Certainly not all topics have views so high. I suppose this would infer bots really liked this topic over others. [edited by: Marked at 8:54 am (utc) on Oct 11, 2012]
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phranque
msg:4506821 | 8:52 am on Oct 11, 2012 (gmt 0) |
what do your server access logs show?
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