Pretty much every plugin/service is going to give you different results for visits and vistors, there are several reasons for this:
* Web crawler detection
* Detection method (javascript vs server side PHP)
* Centralized exclusions
Services that use centralized databases, like Google Analytics, for spam and robot detection have better detection than WP Statistics can. The trade off of course is relaying on an external service.
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anm767
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Thank you for the input Greg,
What would be your preferred method to tell how many People visited pages? Robots/crawlers don’t really give me any useful information. What is important is how many times a page was opened by a person.
Thank you,
Andrei.
Unfortunately unless you have a centralized database where you can do analytics on multiple sites (like Google does) there’s no way to tell the difference between a robot and a user without doing something on the client side in JavaScript (which we’ve avoided).
WP Statistics does the best it can based on the robot being honest about what it is. We can’t do anything about dishonest bots with a single site system.
