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Unique Visitors vs. Visitor Counter

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Real Estate Agent with Bettina Clairmont

I'm really confused. I have a visitor counter on my website. I also have webstatistics I access from my website provider which shows me "unique visits".

What I don't understand is, for example my visitor counter would go up by 5 in a day, but my unique visitors on my statistics would show that I had 45 for the day. How many people really came to my website? Who's got experience with this?

Greg Cremia
Shore Realty of the Outer Banks - Nags Head, NC
The unique visitor stats from your web site provider are the ones to trust. The visitor counter on your site woroks with cookies and a lot of people have their cookies turned off which skews those stats.
May 29, 2007 11:35 PM
Bettina Clairmont
Bettina Clairmont - San Francisco, CA
CPA

Greg, thanks, that explains a lot.

May 30, 2007 01:39 AM