Comments on: Goodbye Urchin, Hello Analytics! Part 2

By: Tyler Cruz

Tyler Cruz — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 21:06:25 +0000

Yes, I was referring to the software version. My server came with a license and Urchin pre-installed.

By: Tyler Cruz

Tyler Cruz — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 21:05:03 +0000

That’s a good point, but I think this would only account for a very small percentage of missed data (<1%). GA’s stats seem much more realistic and on par with ad network data…

I still blame it on Urchin

By: make wicked money

make wicked money — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:33:24 +0000

Hey Tyler, how come you were able to use urchin up to now? I thought it was discontinued and renamed
when they were bought by google. Unless you’re talking about the software version of urchin?
You might want to add statcounter as well just to check.
Also @DaveStarr, a unique visitor IS counted twice if they visit a site two days in a row but the
problem is a bit more complicated than that. It’s called the “hotel problem” and you can read about it
at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_analytics#The_Hotel_Problem.

PS Tyler, I’ve read bits of your blog before but never got the chance to comment/register. Also, I’ve
never seen sooo many haters commenting on one blog! Anyway, I’ve added you to my reader now
Cheers
Keemo

By: zigire

zigire — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 13:55:11 +0000

You need to consider the various spiders that lurk around the internet and content scrapers. They will most likely not show up on Google Analytics because they’re pulling PAGES or IMAGES rather than javascript.

Also… if you have a lot of images being “hot linked” to… that will show up in Urchin but not GA.

It wouldn’t take a genius to figure out what was causing the discrepancies… just take a look at Urchin.

By: Bedroom Entrepreneur

Bedroom Entrepreneur — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 02:29:20 +0000

Tyler I am on your side, for one of my site, Google Analytics show around 100 unique visitor daily while awstats shows 1000+, I think this is weird

One reason I can think of is: if the page is not completely loaded, it will not be counted by GA, since the javascript is not loaded. However, server side stats normally generate report from the Apache log file, even you type in tylercruz.com and click stop before it’s being loaded, it’s still count as 1.

Tyler did you double check all of your pages include the GA code?

By: Tyler Cruz

Tyler Cruz — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 04:38:02 +0000

Good to know it’s not just me then… anyone else?

By: Sujeet

Sujeet — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:35:20 +0000

The heatmaps are totally screwed up. For one of my sites, GA shows that every link in my blogroll was clicked exactly 5702 times, while 99% of the other links on the page were NEVER clicked.

I’m not sure if I need to configure Analytics to actively track clicks through the goal conversions section, but I never really looked into it until I read your post.

By: PigsnieLite

PigsnieLite — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:19:35 +0000

I dont think Tyler promotes these little websites at all. He just started his
entrepreneuring ways with these little projects.
ANyway, I play badminton but I never have anything to say. And have you actually
checked TheTylerProject? very amuse bouche.