For a couple of months I've got a Wordpress website (http://www.tricky-design.com) online. I was curious how many visitor do visit my website therefore I'd setup a statistics counter Statpress (plugin wordpress).
After a while I came across Google analytics an thought, why not use this one instead, so I've installed it too.
My hosting provider also does offer me limited statistics but the strange thing is that the results of the three different counter over the same time span aren't the same. I've placed the results in the table below.
------------------------------------- | DECEMBER 2011 | ------------------------------------- | Source | Hits | Pages | Unique | ------------------------------------- | Hosting: | 5903 | 751 | 1087 | | Google: | 263 | 145 | 132 | | Statpress:| 858 | 291 | ??? | -------------------------------------
As you can see the differences are big. Does anyone know how this is possible? I don't know which one of the 3 I can trust or is at least close to the actual numbers.