Title: [Plugin: WP-Stats] Huge differences with Google Analytics
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: WP-Stats] Huge differences with Google Analytics

 *  [Claude Vedovini](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cvedovini/)
 * (@cvedovini)
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-stats-huge-differences-with-google-analytics/)
 * Hi,
 * I have WP-Stats and Google analytics both enabled on my blog @ [http://vedovini.net](http://vedovini.net)
   and I can see real discrepancies between both reports. Google analytics reports
   way less visits than WP-Stats.
 * Does someone know what could explain this? Don’t they count the same things?
 * Thanks,
    Claude

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 *  [Monika](https://wordpress.org/support/users/monika/)
 * (@monika)
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-stats-huge-differences-with-google-analytics/#post-823859)
 * Don’t they count the same things?
    yes! hit= every refresh is 1 hit visits= every
   xyz sec the same user is now a new user 😉
 * uniques … (theoretical) one IP in 24 hours
 * and
 * for WP stat is a bot the same *user* as a human user…
 * for analytics not
 * use WP stats for your ego and analytics for your strategy 😉
 * regards
    Monika
 *  [timjamz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timjamz/)
 * (@timjamz)
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-stats-huge-differences-with-google-analytics/#post-823981)
 * I’m not sure it’s possible to get an accurate account, since every piece of software
   is written for different metrics. For example, the Counterize plugin seems to
   count each and every hit, every time. WP-Stats seems to ignore bots (counter 
   to Monika’s point). Google seems to count the least possible traffic, for whatever
   reason….
 * Example: you might see 150 hits reported from Counterize, 90 hits reported from
   WP-Stats, and 40 hits reported from Google. Counterize sits on your blog and 
   notes every time your site gets “hit” – including bots and your own traffic (
   unless you set to ignore it). WP-Stats sits on WP’s servers and relies on scripts
   to report traffic from your site to WP’s servers, and they choose what traffic
   to report as a “hit” while some traffic acts in “stealth” to avoid being counted.
   Google relies on Java script, so any user/browser with Java disabled won’t report
   anything to Google, combined with Google’s own criteria of what constitutes a“
   hit” and the stealth traffic.
 * So, there’s no perfect counter. However, WP-Stats seems to be the least biased
   and most accurate I’ve found.
 * HTH

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