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Originally Posted by woj
"accurate" depends on your objective... 
lets say, server records 1000 hits, 100 of those hits are bots/crawlers/visitors who weren't able to load the page/etc
1000 is accurate if you are interested in knowing how many "hits" your site received..
900 is accurate if you are interested in knowing how many human "visitors" your site received...
If you are a server admin, "hits" may be more of interest to you...
If you run a business, like some of us here, I would think number of human visitors is more "accurate"... |
Even take the bots & crawlers out, GA still misses quite a few hits. For one example, lots of visitors have Javascript turned off, and there's a plethora of other reasons.
The best way to get good & accurate stats is internally, on the server side. That way the hit gets tracked before the page even loads, versus firing off some Javascript to a remote server after the page is already loaded. How you filter & use that data is up to you, but it's the best way to get accurate data.
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