SEO Tycoon

**Spencer2010** · 12-02-2009, 09:26 AM

Hi all Happy Holidays!

In your opinion or statement as fact...

What is the best site for determining an accurate Unique Visitors count. Is it Compete, AW Stats, etc.?

I rely on our internal AW Stats to report Uniques although when when I check out Compete the numbers do not match up.

Any info would be appreciated...

Best,
Spencer2010

**chrishirst** · 12-02-2009, 09:41 AM

Your own site logs ARE the accurate ones, the rest are at best inaccurate (GoAn, Statcounter etc) or just junk (Compete, Alexa etc)

**Brian07002** · 12-02-2009, 09:56 AM

yep, I wouldn't ever look past your website logs. Gives you the most accurate info.

**Spencer2010** · 12-02-2009, 10:17 AM

Thanks!

Here's the scenario; for a stable of sites I do have AW Stats. For 1 site I do not have a counter for Uniques; that being said which site is the least regarded as garbage?

**chrishirst** · 12-02-2009, 10:23 AM

Google Analytics probably but it's based on javascript so will miss some accesses to the pages.

**WendyS** · 12-02-2009, 12:02 PM

Spencer 2010 - thanks for posting this question. I learned from this....

**electrifire** · 12-02-2009, 12:50 PM

I use google analytics, the map is handy so I can see where the visitors are coming from especially as Im after visitors from a 50 mile radius of my house

**xela1966** · 11:37 AM

Can I recommend Statcounter.com

Google Analytics its to confuse to much information.

**FenceGuy** · 12-06-2009, 11:42 AM

I use Google Analytics and Wordpress Stats for my site, I have looked at AWstats but feel the information is not what I am concerned with. I read an article recently that explains further some of the differences: http://www.googlelytics.net/awstats-...gle-analytics/

**aliza147** · 12-06-2009, 07:14 PM

Well the best site is Google Analytics, otherwise you may HiStat, extremetracking etc.

**ishie** · 12-06-2009, 09:33 PM

For my sites, I only use Google Analytics to check my traffic stats. For my blogs, Sitemeter is good enough.

**jabo** · 12-06-2009, 11:27 PM

I look at it at in three ways...
one is with the site logs
another is with awstat
and last is with Google Analytics...

I include it all in my report and I make use of all sites in determining stuffs like which page are visited by unique visitors most, which page is most effective and stuff like that..

**benedict65** · 12-07-2009, 06:14 AM

I rely on Google Analytics. It is the most accurate tool to determine how much traffic.

**Kwinzee** · 12-07-2009, 10:34 AM

Google analytics provides that information as well as tons of other useful statistics.
I regularly check visitor statistics here and unique visitors statistics too...

**CadServices** · 12-31-2009, 12:07 AM

i am using google analytics for viewing unique visitors.

**Christoph** · 01-01-2010, 02:53 PM

I agree, Google Analytics is a great tool for accurate unique visits. You need to copy a bit of code into your site and then it will give you a very detailed summary of how many unique visits, percentage of where they came from, avergae page views, most popuar pages (so you know which ones to make top notch) and lot's of other functions. Highly recommended....ohh and it's free, thank you google!

**crush25** · 01-02-2010, 06:04 AM

I am also using google analytics too in determining my unique visits. I haven't tried statcounter but I am planning to check it as well

**ian0031** · 01-03-2010, 08:39 PM

I use also google analytics to determined how many unique visitors are going to my sites and compare them from the past results so that I will know if I do a effective way of SEO work.

**arnabme** · 01-04-2010, 02:51 AM

You can use a combination of Google Analytics and your own log stats for a better understanding of the traffic.

**linkforu** · 01-04-2010, 03:42 AM

i would recommend statcounter as well