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What is the difference between New Visitors and Absolute Unique Visitors in Google Analytics?

Why don't my Weebly reported traffic numbers match my Google Analytics traffic numbers?

  • Typically, if I use my Weebly stats I will receive 200 unique visitors per day.  However, Google Analytics only shows 30-40 unique visitors per day for the same day.  I've been tracking this for nearly a month and there is always a large discrepancy.  Why does this discrepancy exist and is there a way to eliminate this difference?

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    Google Analytics only tracks visitors who run JavaScript. It is likely that visitors without JavaScript are being counted in Weebly and not being counted in Google Analytics. Those visits are typically from bots and crawlers. I know the difference in numbers may sound too big to be just from bots, but it is not unheard of. I'm not sure how you can eliminate this difference. Assuming you've got GA set up correctly I would use that as your primary source for stats on web traffic.

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Here's how Weebly explains the discrepancy: The Traffic Statistics data from Weebly will be different from Google Analytics as Google tracks visitors based on cookies (which tends to undercount) and Weebly tracks based on IP address (which tends to overcount). There is also a delay before Google's stats are updated. The exact traffic number is probably somewhere in the middle between the two. Source: http://www.website-builder-review.info/weebly-review.html

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