I've been using a free 3rd party sitestats counter for years, and I would like to get rid of the external party.
For this simple thing I'm only interested in pageviews (other stats I use google analytics for). So, I'm performing an insert on the footer of every page (excluding all bots I have seen coming along in the last week), but for some reason my counts are 45% higher than the old counter and 40% higher than google's pageview counts.
Are there any additional checks I need to do to prevent counting incorrect pageviews?
Thanks!