Title: Significant difference in data
Last modified: September 8, 2017

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# Significant difference in data

 *  Resolved Anonymous User
 * (@anonymized-15351932)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/significant-difference-in-data/)
 * To the app Developer
 * The Insights app on my website is supposed to collect the data from my Google
   Analytics account and simply show it to me on a pretty dashboard without any 
   changes – which means that the data should be IDENTICAL.
 * Why then, the app data shown on my website is VERY different to the data shown
   in my analytics account?
 * For example – for 5 September your app shows 55 sessions on my website, yet my
   Google Analytics account shows only 21 sessions on that day. That’s a significant
   difference which is confusing.
 * Could you please explain which data is the correct one and why there is a difference
   in the first place.
 * thanks
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fsignificant-difference-in-data%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Author [chriscct7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chriscct7/)
 * (@chriscct7)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/significant-difference-in-data/#post-9479251)
 * Hi there,
    They’re both correct.
 * We pull the data directly from GA, so they are identical. The difference is the
   metric used. You’re looking at sessions in GA but our plugin uses pageviews (
   we’re getting ready to offer the ability to flip between the two later this year).
 * -Chris
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous User
 * (@anonymized-15351932)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/significant-difference-in-data/#post-9479276)
 * Hi Chris
 * thanks – I checked in my account comparing sessions and pageviews – you are right.
   It shows 21 sessions/55 pageviews.
 * thanks again for your prompt reply 🙂
    Anna
 *  Plugin Author [chriscct7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chriscct7/)
 * (@chriscct7)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/significant-difference-in-data/#post-9479372)
 * Not a problem!
 * -Chris
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous User
 * (@anonymized-15351932)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/significant-difference-in-data/#post-9508140)
 * Hi Chris
 * That would be really good as pageviews are a much higher number than unique visitors,
   and if taken out of contetext can be misleading. I would argue that pageviews
   don’t properly reflect the website traffic, and if anything I see them as inflated
   figures.
 * I know that advertisaer use pageviews to impress their (potential) clients when
   showing the benefits of online advertising (on their site) as they did to me.
   I didn’t like it, as to me these are misleading figures when (often) taken out
   of context and not explained. And many people actually take them as the number
   of visitors.
 * One visitor can have 20 pageviews, then come back to the website and have another
   20 pageviews (or more). So that’s 40 pageviews+ and only one visitor.
 * I’m looking forward to your plugin showing unique and repeated visitors – the
   real measure of website traffic. 🙂

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