can you use google analytics ?
awstats are not as accurate.
LoL. I don't use Google Analyzer. But do you know awstats is always more accurate than google analytic? You may question, "Why?". So, I am trying to write some answers.
1. Google Analyzer is 3rd party analyzer but awstats is hosted on own server. So, my own can analyze better than a third party.
2. Google Analytics requires you to copy/paste the JavaScript code they provide to you on each of your webpages. So, if a website visitor happens to have disabled Cookies and/or JavaScript in their internet browser, the code that Google Analytics uses may not get run and those visits are not counted. Also, Google Analytics opt-out users are not counted either.
3. Awstats can detect search engine bots that access and crawl your website to learn more about your website content, link structure, etc., whereas Google Analytics does not register this type of traffic since most crawlers and spiders don’t run JavaScript code.
4. The Awstats program does distinguish between the visits from humans and non-humans, categorizing traffic as “Viewed traffic” and “Not viewed traffic”, where “Not viewed traffic includes traffic generated by robots, worms, or replies with special HTTP status codes”. Awstats has a large list of known robot/spider ips, and most of them do identify themselves as robots/spiders. It can also detect these from interactions.
5. Google Analytics by default counts a session as a 30 minute interval. So if the user goes on a 30-minute lunch break in between visits on your website for example, that will count as 2 visits. Awstats counts a session as 1 hour.
6. Finally, no traffic statistics program is ever 100% accurate.
