Discrepancy Between GA and HubPages Stats

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   eugbugposted 4 years ago

   
   Stats for this hub never seem to tally and there's always a large discrepancy. Hubpages shows there's a lot of traffic from "other" sites whatever they are. Currently traffic reported by HubPages on the accounts page is 450 per day. According to GA, it's 120 per day on average.

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   eugbugposted 4 years ago

   

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      Gregory DeVictorposted 4 years agoin reply to this

      Eugene, I’ve been having the same problem with the HP and GA stats for as long as I can remember. I’ve even devised one mathematical formula to calculate the “real” number of daily/weekly page views at HP, and another formula with GA. The two amounts never coincide. Yes, the HP amount is always higher. Always.

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   paradigmsearchposted 4 years ago

   Just so folks know, this was discussed years ago. For whatever reason, the programming/coding never did get straightened out. As I understand it, the problem is on Google's end and not HP's.

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      Gregory DeVictorposted 4 years agoin reply to this

      I like the number of page views on HP's stats much better. Obviously.

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         paradigmsearchposted 4 years agoin reply to this

         Especially since that is what they base their pay on (minus the 40% of course).

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            Gregory DeVictorposted 4 years agoin reply to this

            Absolutely!

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   eugbugposted 4 years ago

   So possibly it has something to do with different interpretations between HP and GA about what constitutes a view, depending on how long a visitor stays on a page?

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      Gregory DeVictorposted 4 years agoin reply to this

      That sounds like a strong possibility.

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   eugbugposted 4 years ago

   Just noticed in the related forum posts below, I posted this question before, 8 months ago (well for UK stats, that is).

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   eugbugposted 4 years ago

   Interestingly GA reports that for the 26th July, 90% of traffic was organic from Google. According to HP, about 50% was from Google, the rest being "other". Like the Internet traffic equivalent of Dark Matter

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      Gregory DeVictorposted 4 years agoin reply to this

      Interesting. Recently, someone put a link to one of my ToughNickel articles on Facebook. According to HP’s stats, the article has been receiving about 200 page views a day. GA is not reporting that amount of traffic at all. Yes, GA always reports that the bulk of my traffic is organic from Google. OK, like you said above, it could be the amount of time that someone is spending on my article.

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