[quote=ichigoni @ Aug 10 2010, 08:45 AM]I also having the same issue,
GA show me that - Absolute Unique Visitors 8,030
But piwik show value - 1,434 unique visitors.[/quote]
Hello
I also found the same difference as you.
Over the same period (half day), GA accounts 6 visits of France while Piwik accounts 4 visits of France and 1 of U.S. (for information my site is brand new;))
I use Piwik 1.0.0.
Can someone explain this difference, then, numbers of visits, but also location?
The same is happening to our sites too. Is there any specific place to put the code? I tried with the js code in the head, after body tag openinig and before body tag close with the same results. Piwik stats are really low comparing with google analytics.
I’m 100% sure that the code exist on all pages. Checked it many times.
So any js error would make piwik fail ? Wouldn’t that break google analytics code too?
Edit:
Checked the sites pages and the only messages in browser’s console are some blocked google frames and some 400(bad request) for google ads.
No javascript exceptions or errors.
We have inlcude piwik on some smaller sites with very small traffic ( between 100 and 300 hits per day ) but the differences with google are reasonable ( piwik numbers are slightly smaller ).
when you have big differences, try to see if some pages are not tracked, or maybe some “browserS” are not tracked (indicating potential JS/browser bug), etc.
I do get a huge difference between GA stats and Piwik stats too.
There is something like +30% on all GA indicators compared to Piwik indicators, unless for direct traffic which is 3 times higher on Piwik.
I read on other posts on the subject “GA vs Piwik” that this difference could only be explained by robot’s trafic count (suposing that the tracking code is correct on every page)
…anyway, can you explain why the direct trafic is higher on Piwik reports ??
Sorry if this post doesn’t fit here. I’ve been looking for and I think that this thread fits with my question (:P)
Do you recommend using Piwik for locating the backlinks that Google analytics doesn’t show now when you are visited by a user logged in? (the “not provided” backlinks)