Tracking incoming traffic - what do you use?

[macB]

I have Google Analytics and AWStats available for my site but I never know which one to believe. I didn't expect them to be identical on basic stats such as pageviews, but they are miles apart, here's an an example:

	Jan	Feb	Mar
AWStats	1363	4383	5561
Google Analytics	248	735	923

So I was wondering what do people use?

 

[RH-Calvin]

I use Google analytics to track incoming traffic for our websites.

 

[Community]

Google analytics Is most reliable, AWStats counts every single request including junk,scrapers and bots, where as Google Analytics counts real visitors.

Best to disregard AWstats completely

 

[macB]

Thanks for the replies, I suspected that AWStats was including more than it should.

 

[Jennifer Neon]

I prefer SEMRush as my first choice for detecting incoming traffic.

 

[deniel]

Hey@macB I suggest you use Google Analytics because it gives you a perfect and accurate result, i personally use these for tracking traffic