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Posterous showing inaccurate numbers from Google Analytics
It seems that the numbers on Posterous (views) are much higher than what I see in Google Analytics. I am measuring posts that were created long after GA was installed and confirmed to be working. For instance, this post: http://internetbarf.posterous.com/whe... shows viewed 234 times today on the Posterous page but GA only reports 17 page views. I have had GA installed and working on this Posterous blog since 01/26/2009.
Anyone else seeing this same kind of discrepancy?
Anyone else seeing this same kind of discrepancy?
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Inappropriate?First of all, when people read your posts through the Posterous reader (like I do) that counts as a view for that post on Posterous. But that would not hit google analytics. Same for RSS feeds.
If people hit your site and have javascript disabled, that would still count as a view on Posterous, but would be ignored by Google analytics
If I go to the main page for your site:
http://internetbarf.posterous.com/
That will count as a post view for *each* of the posts on that page. Google would count that as one view for that page, and no views for each post.
So the fundamental difference here is google analytics is counting when that particular page is loaded with javascript, while we count anytime that *post* is loaded, on any page anywhere.
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Inappropriate?Thanks for the explanation. Could that account for the fact that Posterous says I have 2,121 site views, while Google Analytics says its only 37 visits!?
I'd like to think that I'm 2k visits popular, but don't think thats the case :-)
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