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Sunday, October 12, 2014

Why Blogger stats is not correct and how to correct it

Why Blogger stats is not correct and how to correct it

Blogger stats also tracks the page views of your blog. But there is a difference in count between Blogger stats and Google Analytic. Why and how to correct?

Blogger stats and Google Analytics page view counts are different. An example for my post, remove or edit home link is given below. This is a count of total number visitors in one month to this post. But both shows different number. Google Analytics shows a total of 378 views while Blogger Stats records 458 views. Why the Bloggers Stats is more than Google Analytics and who is correct?

Why they are different?

The thread to the answer comes from Blogger in Draft's introduction to Blogger Stats post. They are giving a clue about it, see..
Note: that the page view data in Blogger Stats and in Google Analytics may not be identical, due to different collection mechanisms used.
They mention about different mechanisms. That gives the clue. Google Analytics uses the cookie based tracking, that is some data called cookie are stored while someone visits your bog. They track real users and they can distinguish a bot [bots are the automated computer programs that visit your bog for indexing your data that's how Search engineer are indexing data on there server].

But Blogger Stats uses an entire different mechanism, they just tracks the page visits. These visits may be by you or a real user or a search bot or other automated spammers. Automated spammers also used bots to operate. Blogger Stats count everything, so it is not real.

So, How to make it almost REAL?

There is a solution for that, not a perfect solution, but you can minimize the appropriate count down of blog status. Disable your own page views It helps you to disable counting your page views on your own blog.I that case you have to do:

1. Starts > Overview.
2. Now select Don't track my pageviews and Save it.

Is it Correct Then?

No, the above comparison between Analytics and Blogger Stats. I had enabled Do't tack page views options, still there is a difference in count. It's because the search engine spiders and spammers, we can't correct it.

Who can correct it ?

For newbies, this method gives almost same value as their search engine update is not so frequent. But as their popularity increases, bots update their index frequently. So the Blogger Stats counts becomes different by a large amount. After reaching some 100 pageviews/day, you should shift to Google Analytics. There is an upside too. If Blogger Stats is more, your confidence increases. This will help you in endeavor. Who is the winner: without doubt, Google Analytics.

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