What’s the go with LiveStats? We use version 5.03 from Media House, now known as DeepMetrix, which is a way cool new name, or something.
Anyway, I’ve been tracking my car thrashing and burnouts site using LiveStats and my own web counter written in PHP. It seems that my counter is more accurate — at least it’s more plausible. Today LiveStats said thrashcar had 2317 sessions but only 1551 page views! How that can make sense I do not know. My own counter said a more reasonable 2013 page views and 571 sessions. I guess LiveStats does use log file parsing, maybe it could be parsing the logfiles wrongly, or … hang on a second…
It’s because my site is listed on modifiedcars.net and they’re using my banner ad by linking to my site. So all the people who view the page with my banner on it start a new session on my site! But not a page view hit, cause they’re only retrieving an image, aren’t they? (Yes). So that’s why it sucks, because I got all excited about the insane amount of users on my site, when really it’s only around 500. Which is still not bad.