Google analytics reporting issues.

[adamnichols45]

Google analytics is reporting for arguments sake 50 visitors while my server logs report 65 using Webalizer.

Is the difference all search bots? where are all the extra visits coming from?

[g1smd]

Some of your visitors don't do JavaScript and will not be recorded by GA.... bots and search engines especially.

[pageoneresults]

I'd also check to see if you have any 404s in your logfiles from the ga.js. Those are most likely timeouts to the script and not recorded. Or at least that is what we are finding.

[adamnichols45]

I only ever see my server logs through the control panel that my host provider provides me with.

Is there a more in-depth way of looking into them?

[g1smd]

Often there isn't.

If you had access to the raw log files, you could FTP them down to your PC and run them through an analyser to make reports.

Alternatively give GA a go. You won't look back.

[adamnichols45]

I am using GA but its that I would like to see more about the bots etc that are visiting and I have no way of doing this with the current software that my host is providing.

[g1smd]

If you have PHP (or any other scripting language) available then you can get your site to write your own custom logs, send you alerts, or do whatever you want it to do.