Title: Discrepancy between statistics plugins
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Discrepancy between statistics plugins

 *  Resolved [dtandersongb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dtandersongb/)
 * (@dtandersongb)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/discrepancy-between-statistics-plugins/)
 * I have both WP Statistics and Statcounter plugins installed and they give very
   different results.
 * WP Statistics gives me an average of 210 visitors per day, whilst Statcounter
   gives only 43 average per day.
 * Why is there such a big difference, and how can I believe either of these are
   correct?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-statistics/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-statistics/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Greg Ross](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gregross/)
 * (@gregross)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/discrepancy-between-statistics-plugins/#post-6534584)
 * From the FAQ:
 * = I’m using another statistics plugin/service and get different numbers for them,
   why? =
 * Pretty much every plugin/service is going to give you different results for visits
   and vistors, there are several reasons for this:
 * * Web crawler detection
    * Detection method (javascript vs server side PHP) *
   Centralized exclusions
 * Services that use centralized databases, like Google Analytics, for spam and 
   robot detection have better detection than WP Statistics can. The trade off of
   course is relaying on an external service.

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## Tags

 * [Difference](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/difference/)
 * [discrepancy](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/discrepancy/)
 * [statcounter](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/statcounter/)

 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Greg Ross](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gregross/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/discrepancy-between-statistics-plugins/#post-6534584)
 * Status: resolved