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November 23, 2010 6:12am
Subscribe [3]#1 / Nov 23, 2010 6:12am
Hello,
Can anyone tell me why the ‘Total Combined Page Hits’ and my Google Analytics are way out for a site?
Total Combined Page Hits = 162836
Google Analytics Pageviews = 6089
They’re not even close?!
Can anyone shed any light on this for me please?
#2 / Nov 23, 2010 7:53am
Matthew, when did you start using GA? Are you using embeds any where? Are any of your EE pages only available for logged in users?
#3 / Nov 23, 2010 4:48pm
Hi Sue,
I started using GA a week or so after the site went live - there wasn’t much action on the site then though, very low traffic.
Embeds, yes - just the usual header / footer ones. They’re both registering 0 from the Template Management page.
There’s only the Discussion Forum module that has member registration.
Any ideas?
#4 / Nov 24, 2010 2:12am
Matthew,
ExpressionEngine’s hit counter does not does differentiate between human visitors and spiders/crawlers. So that number would include every request, spammer, spiders bots etc. that Google tries hard to eliminate from its figures.
Does that help?
#5 / Nov 24, 2010 7:09am
Hi John,
Ah, yes! Thank you - that makes sense. The site has been Spam City for the past few months.
Thanks John!
#6 / Nov 24, 2010 10:59am
Glad John was able to help. Don’t hesitate to post again as needed.