My website is just about 1 month old and i've started to get OK traffic around 200-400 clicks daily. I use google Analitics to see my report on how many clicks i get a day and how many unique clicks i get on my website. Unfortunately though It seems analytics is off sometimes. If I watch my sight counters (uniques) and compare to adsense analytics is off a lot. Not sure if analytics might be on a wierd time schedule. Anyone with anymore insight would be great. I check the stats only about once a day, but if i knew when they would be accurate. Does anyone know FREE yet reliable resources to check reports online?

As far as I know that analytics is based on the javascrip supported browsers. I think that better keep in pockets another analytics methods.

Any other free analytics method

I find Google Analytics very effective in terms of marketing analysis. The only problem in analytics is that you cant block your own IP thats why every pageload that you make counts in Google Analytics, not unlike StatCounter.

i found a lot of difference between my cpanel analysis and analytics one... why so?

GA doesn't register non-javascript visitors.

Ga also does not count bots.

Ga also does not count bots.

This feature what makes Google Analytics results different from AWstat or others, GA results really accurate, it is worth while to keep it installed on your website

Except when there is a server issue / lag at Google and the javascript call brings your website to it's knees waiting for Google to respond.. I'm not a fan of using scripts or images or anything at all not hosted on my own servers.. Nothing worse that a page not loading because someone else is having issues..

There has been talk that this may even be affecting people's quality scores for adsense because it slows down load times which can reduce our score which can lower your revenue..

I'm a big fan of Google Analytics, just watch out because a lot of users are now starting to block javascripts running in the background of websites, which will not allow you to track those users.

Google analytics is one of the great tool that you can use.

GA is a good web analyze tools

I use both analytics and awstats... though there is a huge and significance difference between the results for my traffic, I still use both of them...

It is simply superb.. it records our page view too.. We cant block our IP and it does not make sense to me..

I trust Awstats myself

Google Analystics is great for estabilished websites, see if visitors going up or down.
If your launching a website (like urs 1mth), I would use CNStats for example as it provides more indepth analaysis allowing you to more market your website to visitors.

Ive also found GA to SLOW DOWN!! websites so I now add it to AddBlock Plus its useualy the last element of a website to load and takes a long time (for me). I use GA or cnstats.

I use both awstats from my CPanel and Google Analytics. Numbers will always be "off" between differing web analytics software because they use different metrics for their stats. Some will count bots while others will not, they consider sessions to be different lengths, uniques differently and some of this stuff is changeable within the software configuration.

As for uniques - some will count by IP but there can be several users coming from the same IP address. Some software will try to mask some sort of signature per user to try to make the uniques more accurate by combining IP, browser, browser version, OS, and whatever other data they can collect about the user to try to make them look more unique then an IP address that might be used for several users. Because of how stupidly they setup a network where I used to work (stripping client IPs), we had two users in our web analytics software - outside the network and inside the network depending on which side of the router you were accessing the web server from.

As for it slowing down during page loads, yes, that happens which is why people recommend placing the code at the bottom of the page so it's the last thing loaded and doesn't slow down the page itself loading.

I use both analytics and awstats... But they have a little bit difference, But people acknowledge Google Analitics more.

The traffic I get according to Google Analytics, & the traffic I get according to my host company always differ. According to analytics, I get about 5 visitors a day. According to my host, I get 1,000s. I think analytics is the much more accurate number though as I have done little to no promotion of the site.

Where I always question analytics though, is in the amount of time on a page. They often quote some of my pages as having been read for 00:00:00. Yet when I speak to people about how long they were on the page, they tell me that they read the whole thing, & a lot of my pages are quite long, so I don't wholly trust all of the stats that they tell me, though it does seem to be quite accurate in the main.

Big difference for awstats and GA..awstats really shows you numbers of visitors which sometimes makes me confused trying to compare it with GA..but i like awstats it really shows everything...