Title: Wp Statistics does not match Google Analytics
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Wp Statistics does not match Google Analytics

 *  Resolved [crying2812](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crying2812/)
 * (@crying2812)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-statistics-does-not-match-google-analytics/)
 * Hi ad, Sorry for my bad english.
    i need config User Online of Wp Statistics 
   coincide with real time of Google Analytics. How to do ?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-statistics/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-statistics/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Greg Ross](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gregross/)
 * (@gregross)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-statistics-does-not-match-google-analytics/#post-6714502)
 * WP Statistics and Google use very different methods of detecting online users
   so it’s probably not possible for them to align.
 *  [Alain Lankers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alain-lankers/)
 * (@alain-lankers)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-statistics-does-not-match-google-analytics/#post-6714650)
 * I also have big difference in user count of Google Analytics and the user count
   of this plugin.
 * I dont understand that different methods have different number of users:
 * If there are 10 users, then it should be 10 users with each method.
 * If another method gives a different number then this method fails.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Greg Ross](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gregross/)
 * (@gregross)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-statistics-does-not-match-google-analytics/#post-6714652)
 * Unfortunately it’s not that simple, the web is a stateless environment so users
   only talk to the server when they need another page. This makes being “online”
   difficult to track.
 * Even the best algorithm is only an estimate. For example if a user has the page
   open but in the background of their browser are they online?
 * If the page is in the foreground but the user has left their computer are they
   online?
 * Since we only track server side events, we estimate online users based on a reasonable
   amount of time since the last time they loaded a page from the site.
 *  [Alain Lankers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alain-lankers/)
 * (@alain-lankers)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-statistics-does-not-match-google-analytics/#post-6714654)
 * Thanks for your reply. But you are talking about online users. I was talking 
   about the count of daily users.
    example: yesterday visitor count: WP Statistics
   says i had 13 visitors yesterday, and Google Analytics says I had 35 visitors.
   I think that’s a big difference in numbers.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Greg Ross](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gregross/)
 * (@gregross)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-statistics-does-not-match-google-analytics/#post-6714655)
 * Visitor detection is a complex process, the number of robots, spambots, malware
   and other “non-users” out there is huge.
 * Google and WP Statistics use different algorithms and methods to detect these
   and exclude them, with different pros and cons, hence different numbers.
 *  [Alain Lankers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alain-lankers/)
 * (@alain-lankers)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-statistics-does-not-match-google-analytics/#post-6714656)
 * Thanks for pointing that out.
 * The biggest difference I get between WP Statistics and Google Analytics are traffic
   from the USA. WP Stat is counting these US traffic, but Google Analytics does
   not seem to count this traffic from US.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Greg Ross](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gregross/)
 * (@gregross)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-statistics-does-not-match-google-analytics/#post-6714657)
 * Google doesn’t publish their algorithm so there’s no way to know what they do
   and don’t count as traffic.

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