I’ve had a long week so please forgive me if this just comes out as some kind of cranky rant, but I need to get it off my shoulders.
StatCounter seems to have gone down the drain for me over the past two weeks. The stats are completely wrong and I’ve been able to prove it several times during the two weeks of frustration.
First, there are the discrepancies between Statcounter and other statistical tools. Now this is nothing new. We all know that tools like awstats and similar tools have had issues with being accurate, but the last two weeks have been extreme.
It started when Google analytics and awstats were showing close to the same thing, but Statcounter would be off by several hundred visits a day per site. I found this to be a bit odd, but at first I actually believed Statcounter over Google and awstats. According to Statcounter the traffic was significantly lower than what Google and awstats were showing.
I was faithful to Statcounter until last Monday when it became clear the stat counter just wasn’t doing its job. I used a political blog that doesn’t get a lot of traffic to run some tests on. Once again, Statcounter was off by about 120 unique IP’s.
Then, this morning I had four new registrations on another blog (I have a lot of subscribers on my political blogs) and Statcounter is showing that the site has received ZERO visits today. These registrations took place more than 8 hours ago, yet Statcounter shows nothing. How can that be?
I just don’t know what to believe anymore. It’s quite frustrating to be honest.
Anyone else having issues?
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