Europundit

Stats

Another thing about the rise in visits is that the huge discrepancy between Awstats (my internal counter) and SiteMeter is now enourmous. It really is remarkable.

Compare and contrast:

Awstats says:

Day Number of visits Pages Hits Bandwidth

11 Aug 2003 100 152 359 13.48 MB
12 Aug 2003 80 184 462 10.00 MB
13 Aug 2003 82 152 277 13.51 MB
14 Aug 2003 71 98 215 10.47 MB
15 Aug 2003 48 87 188 7.97 MB
16 Aug 2003 55 122 220 11.16 MB
17 Aug 2003 59 91 313 10.01 MB

18 Aug 2003 135 162 330 13.20 MB
19 Aug 2003 187 216 377 10.34 MB
20 Aug 2003 167 174 256 8.97 MB
21 Aug 2003 240 273 520 9.89 MB
22 Aug 2003 214 263 399 11.52 MB
23 Aug 2003 59 81 157 7.51 MB

Average 99.74 154.35 333.26 11.11 MB

SiteMeter says:

The discrepancy has always been huge, I haven't really noticed how huge until now:

According to SiteMeter
VISITS
Total 3,000 [since mid-April]
Average Per Day 21
This Week 150

According to Awstats:

Aug 2003
Unique visitors 1356
Number of visits 2294
Pages 3550

Total [since mid-June]
Unique visitors 2821
Number of visits 6234
Pages 14469

I hope this isn't boring you, but my impression is a majority of readers of obscure blogs such as this one are bloggers themselves, and that bloggers can't ever get enough of this kind of crap. Anyway, to sum up; SiteMeter says I've had roughly 2000 visits since I got my own domain, Awstats says I've had 6234. That's more than 200% more visits. Presumably, the paid for service is more reliable.

Dean Esmay wrote essentially exactly what I just wrote very post a month ago, but I didn't realize then how dramatic the discrepancy was. Or is this an aberration?

Posted by David Weman at August 23, 2003 06:40 PM | TrackBack