Insane difference in statistics

  • Hi!

    Google Analytics tells me that I had 36 page views yesterday and 18 visitors. However, WP statistics tell me I had 290 views and 61 visitors…? The only thing that would make sense is that I filtered my own IP address in Google Analytics to avoid wrong data. But, how would I be able to visit my web site 250+ times on my own…? Any help would be appreciated, thank you.

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    I assume by “WordPress Statistics,” you mean those provided by Jetpack?

    First of all, please keep in mind that Jetpack stats don’t track the following:
    – Visits to uploaded documents and files
    – Visits from browsers that do not execute javascript or load images
    – GoogleBot and other search engine spiders/robots
    – Visits by users that are logged in

    I’m not totally familiar with configuring Google Analytics or what it tracks by default, and their support documentation doesn’t go into what they do or do not track with regards to the individual web properties that you set up. This is what I could find in their documentation: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1008080

    Thus it would stand to reason that you would see different views/visits in Jetpack’s stats than Analytics.

    There is also an article about Jetpack Stats on their site that might be a good read – and how it works together with Analytics:
    https://jetpack.me/2014/06/18/how-to-install-stats-and-analytics-on-your-wordpress-site-with-jetpack/

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