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Why are my stats different than in Google Analytics or product x?

Lies, damn lies, and statistics. I have yet to see any two stats gathering mechanisms report the same numbers. The code is GPL'd and I welcome suggestions for improvements.

bStat's primary features are to offer information to your readers about what stories are popular and help illustrate those trends to blog authors. I leave it up to blog administrators to decide if the mechanism bSuite uses to get that data is sufficient to the purpose, though I will add that I run a number of stats applications in addition to bStat (Google Analytics and AWstats).

Why are my stats different than with the old version?

Previous versions of bSuite and bStat counted hits using a different mechanism than bSuite 4. The old mechanism simply counted the number of times WordPress generated a page, reporting falsely high results because of search crawlers, or falsely low results because of caching. bSuite 4 uses a javascript to report back that your pages were actually rendered in a browser. This should lead to more accurate counting of your readership, rather than reporting on which of your posts is getting most indexed by web crawlers.

How do I...?

Full documentation and usage examples are available at MaisonBisson.com.