Yesterday we saw the record number of visitors to our website on a single day shattered: Wavewalk Kayaks’ website got 793 visits, according to a report produced by Google, and 1,028 visits according to a report produced by the company that hosts our website.
The difference from the normal came from many visits sent to us from Duckworks Magazine, the leading small boat site, who’s regularly interested in what we’re doing (thanks Chuck!…) This time it was our motorized kayak research project that caught Chuck’s attention.
The previous record for daily visitors to our website was 754, and it was set on July 6, 2009.
Most impressive!
Why the difference between Google’s number and the other company’s report?
Pete
I don’t know exactly.
The web hosting company logs clicks coming from visitors that are not ‘robots’ sent by search engines, etc., but it also logs about a couple dozen visits from us per day, in average, which Google Anaylitics filters out.
Google Analytics filters out ‘robots’ too, but uses a special piece of code called ‘script’ that we have to introduce manually into each and every page and blog post we create. We may have forgotten to do it for a number of pages and blog posts, and it’s possible this code could deteriorate over time, so Google would miss visits to certain pages.
It’s hard to keep track of a 10 year old website with over 600 pages and blog posts.
Congrats Yoav, very exciting!