Comparing Stats Tracking

With SiteMeter’s outage over the weekend due to Black Friday traffic, I had to check out the other stats tracking services I have installed on Pulpconnection. That’s right, others. While I primarily rely on SiteMeter to count visits, I dabble with other services to see how they compare.

For a quick and dirty comparison, here are the stats provided by SiteMeter after they came back online. Notice the goose eggs for Saturday and Sunday.

Scoping Google Analytics to similar dates yields the following visits. Look at the difference in visit counts between the two services.

And lastly, here’s one more from 103bees.com. This service emphasizes search engine traffic, but counting visits is a side effect. Their numbers match more like SiteMeter results.

I also have MyBlogLog tracking enabled thanks to their Recent Readers widget. But since I have this widget so far down in my sidebar, I don’t think it creates enough impressions to accurately track visits.

So while SiteMeter was down on Saturday, November 24, Pulpconnection received between 112 and 225 visits and for Sunday, between 110 and 160 visits.

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