Same month, same site. Analytics says nineteen hundred users. My access logs, deduplicated by IP and user agent as best I can, say around forty three hundred. My audience is developers, which I suspect matters. I have…
Same definition on both sides, or so I thought: signed up and completed the first import within seven days. The product analytics tool says 41%, a query against my own database says 26%. That is not a rounding…
Last 30 days. The analytics number and my server logs disagree by a wide margin, and the analytics referrer breakdown says 40% direct which I do not believe either. I am trying to work out where to spend the next month…
About 900 visits a month. The dashboard says roughly 70% direct or none, then a long tail of referrers that add up to nothing. Three things are running: a monthly email, posts in two communities, and a docs page that…
Same 30 day window, three tools, three answers. GA4 and Plausible disagree by about 26% on visitors, which I can live with, but I cannot work out what I am supposed to do with the discrepancy when I calculate a…
Same month, same site. The two analytics tools are 36% apart and I can't reconcile them. My own database is the only thing I'd swear to, but it only knows about people who signed up, so it can't give me a conversion…