Title: Curiosity — diff between WF and Google Analytics
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Curiosity — diff between WF and Google Analytics

 *  [ditchwalk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wporg-1/)
 * (@wporg-1)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/curiosity-diff-between-wf-and-google-analytics/)
 * Hi,
 * For the past few days I’ve been seeing a hit on a web page that WF says originates
   in Atlanta, Georgia. When I check my Google Analytics logs, however, the same
   page hit at the same time is reported as coming from Narragansett, Rhode Island.
 * Does anyone know why there would be such a discrepancy?
 * The IP that WF reports does jibe with Atlanta, and Google Analytics doesn’t report
   IP’s for privacy reasons (hahahaha), so I can’t see what’s happening there, but
   it’s consistent. And also very weird.
 * Thanks in advance.
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 *  [WFBrian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfbrian/)
 * (@wfbrian)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/curiosity-diff-between-wf-and-google-analytics/#post-6061119)
 * Hi,
 * I’m speculating here but Google could be using an outdated database to determine
   the location based on the IP. Is that the only discrepancy you are seeing?
 * -Brian
 *  Thread Starter [ditchwalk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wporg-1/)
 * (@wporg-1)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/curiosity-diff-between-wf-and-google-analytics/#post-6061121)
 * Hi Brian,
 * For the most part I can match up human users reported by WF and unique visitors
   reported by GA. It’s not always 1:1, but generally I can see pages being accessed
   in each report from the same general locations.
 * The one where WF shows a hit from Georgia and Google shows a hit from RI has 
   been consistent but is also the wildest mismatch. Not a big deal, obviously, 
   but certainly curious.
 * (Thanks for the reply.)

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