Comments on: How Accurate is Google Analytics?

By: larric

larric — Mon, 23 Dec 2013 23:22:38 +0000

First off great information. I still wonder if my own visits are counted even though I block my ip address. I’m starting to see more returning visitors than new.

By: Suman

Suman — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 01:22:03 +0000

I am using Google Analytics since 2 years and its damn too good.

By: Mike King

Mike King — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 13:22:34 +0000

Thanks for the encouraging article. Analytics tells me that my visitors is in the tens daily, when another credible counter is in the thousands. CPanel says even more.

I would love to know the real figure.

Anyway, thanks again, the javascript fact alone gave me some info.

Cheers, Mike.

PS. Hope you achieve your Dreams and Ambitions.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:03:35 +0000

You make some good points, but I often wonder why GA regularly reports rounded off figures, a little fishy but where I work it’s the only way of gauging change organic search changes at a level of detail.

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By: Aditya

Aditya — Sun, 06 May 2012 14:39:02 +0000

In reply to Tuan Do. That explains my query to some extent. Thanks :) My blog recently got a PR of 3 and traffic from organic sources like Google has picked up and the avg. time on site from Google is pretty high and the bounce rate too is low. I hope this will be able to cover up for the low quality traffic from SU. Thanks again!

By: Tuan Do

Tuan Do — Sun, 06 May 2012 14:18:34 +0000

In reply to Aditya. Yes, that's right, Aditya. Traffic from Stumble Upon always has low avg time because its users are not targeted. If you use SU, you will see this issue as well. Sometimes you stumble on an irrelevant post and you will pass it in just a few seconds. Therefore, I always consider traffic from SU low quality.

By: Aditya

Aditya — Sun, 06 May 2012 09:15:24 +0000

The only problem I have is with the avg. time of site. My bounce rate is pretty low (45%) if taken into account the standards of my blogging. However, the average time on site is very low and it is surprising how my bounce rate is low even though readers hardly spend a minute or 2 on my blog. I’ve tried my best to filter my visits and automated crawlers. Added to that, I get a tremendous amount of traffic from stumbleupon and the avg. time is again very very low and yet the bounce rate too is low. I don’t understand this at all. I really hope you can explain this?

By: Sabrina Sabino

Sabrina Sabino — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:25:49 +0000

@Noah – If a visitor with Javascript enabled on their browser visits a website with GA on it, it counts as 1 unique visitor. If a person with Javascript disabled on their browser visits the same website, GA will not recognize the visitor (and so this does not appear on your GA stats).

Thanks for the article. Although it would be really cool to know exactly HOW MANY visitors my websites have, not just a general idea. :( The search continues…