Discrepancy between discourse stats and GA

Community Building Data & reporting
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On the Discourse Dashboard I see:

  • User visits: ~50 / day
  • Pageviews: ~8,000 / day (excluding crawlers)

On Google Analytics my site stats show:

  • Users: ~600 / day
  • Pageviews: ~1,600 / day

There is a huge discrepancy obviously. How can this be?

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This is explained at Why there is huge difference in Pageviews tracking number on discourse admin dahboard and on google analytics

TL;DR is that GA can’t count people with AdBlock, people with disabled JS, Crawlers with disabled JS, etc. That is more than half the internet.

3

So, this applies to all other websites in general as well? Or just discourse sites?

4

Every site. If you parse your webserver log and compare it with GA you will see the discrepancy quickly.