# Difference between Discourse Stats and Google Analytics

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/difference-between-discourse-stats-and-google-analytics/70793
**Category:** Data & reporting
**Created:** [September 26, 2017, 10:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/difference-between-discourse-stats-and-google-analytics/70793 "2017-09-26T10:18:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![phani](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f1d935/32.png) [@phani](https://meta.discourse.org/u/phani)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2017, 10:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/difference-between-discourse-stats-and-google-analytics/70793/1 "2017-09-26T10:18:22Z")

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Hi All,

Observed 1 million page views in Discourse Dashboard.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/f/1/f100ae127590be7a05e6e7855af8380516bb4e9a.png)

But my Google Analytics Dashboard shows only 441000 views.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/7/6/76f40f3ca0f911c0aa4a0ddce21b0afefc4e2921.png)

There is almost 500K visit difference between Discourse stats and Google Analytics stats.

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### Author: ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2017, 10:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/difference-between-discourse-stats-and-google-analytics/70793/2 "2017-09-26T10:52:34Z")

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They don’t track the same thing. There already are lots of topics about that subject.

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### Author: ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2017, 10:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/difference-between-discourse-stats-and-google-analytics/70793/3 "2017-09-26T10:52:37Z")

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