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How do you calculate the number for a Page Views? Google does it one way and Posterous does it another. How do you arrive at that number?
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Inappropriate?Page Views are part of the information we bring in from Google Analytics when folks connect that to their PostRank Analytics accounts.
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Inappropriate?Melanie,
Before put down money and subscribe to PostRank I want to make sure I getting the most accurate numbers.
Here is a question and answer someone had that is more of what I looking for...
The Question:
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.
This is a great response to the question. Is this somewhat how PostRank does this. If so, I am signing up.
The Answer:
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?Greg, the pageview numbers you get on PostRank Analytics come directly from your Google Analytics account. As you will see when you signup, we do not require that you add any special javascript or serverside code such that we track your pageviews.
Hence, the numbers should be exactly as reported by Google Analytics. Hope that answers your question?
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