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Category Archives: Web analytics


Converting Google Analytics to States based information

A problem with the Australian Google Analytics service is it does not aggregate the geographical information on a State by State basis.

A bit of knuckle grease and lateral thinking Kerrie Smith and I have been able to solve this problem.
Step 1:

Copy the Map Overlay ‘Country/Territory Detail’ table data
[tip:set ’show rows’ to 100 at the bottom […]

Apples and oranges analytics

A blog post outlining a few of the unique differences between the two web analytics services, Google Analytics and AWStats:

AWStats does
GA does

Usage
Hits
Report filtering

Bandwidth
Plugin support

Media Type usage
Screen Res

Status Codes
Screen colours

Spider footprint
Java support

Hourly usage
Visitor Loyatly

Connection speed

Adword integration

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86% of statistics are fiction

Seasonally adjusted, however, it’s 92%. With web analytics - it’s even higher.
Currently I’m investigating the reason why there are discrepancies between AWStats and Google Analytics - specifically the large differences between a common statistic Page Views.
AWStats bases it’s reports on what happens on the webserver. The challenge is to correctly interpret server hits […]