Why are stats low compared to Awstats & Clickbank?

The number of visitors reported by Clicky is far fewer than the number of unique visitors reported by Awstats in my cPanel and also less than a quarter of the number of my affiliates' hops reported by clickbank.

In the month of December for example:

My Awstats is reporting 187 unique visitors and 489 visits.

Clickbank says that I have 114 hops through my affiliates' hoplinks so far in December -- 66 from one affiliate alone.

Clicky is reporting a grand total of 52 visitors and 75 actions so far for the month December.

I do not have a mirror site and the affiliate with 66 hops so far this month is posting articles to multiple directories.

My instincts tell me that Clicky's stats are more accurate but Awstats and Clickbank tend to agree with each other. I can not figure out the reason for these discrepancies.

Can anyone explain?!

I don't know about Clickbank but AWstats is a log analyzer so it includes activity from robots (search engines, etc). If Clickbank numbers reflect AWstats number then it must be request based as well (e.g. logs every request regardless of the type). Clicky relies on Javascript and hence only tracks human visitors.

That is what I suspected with Awstats, even though it puts all of my 187 unique visitors in the "viewed traffic" category and nothing in my "Not viewed traffic" which "includes traffic generated by robots, worms, or replies with special HTTP status codes".

But Clickbank says a hop is "The act of a prospective customer clicking on a hoplink (this does not include clicks received from automated Internet robots, also known as spiders)".

I have seen that with some of my affiliates, rather than send the prospective customer to my website, my webpage is simply loaded into a frame on their website to be read by their visitor. Could it be that this would be counted as a 'unique visit' by Awstats and a hop by Clickbank but not a visit by Clicky?

What about the 66 hops reported by Clickbank from the article marketing affiliate. Clicky is reporting 10 visits through that affiliates hoplink. What activity is occurring and being counted by Clickbank for those other 56 hops?

I know! I will be asking them as well.

Has this only been a problem the last week or so? We made some changes to our tracking code last week that resulted in some problems for some of our users. Today we just reverted back to the old version. That may be related.

Also, there are literally tens of thousands of different robots out there, so AWstats is unlikely to have an updated list of all the various user agents that should be considered robots, so there are probably lots of visits it thinks are "real" that are in fact not.

Also, many of them send fake user agents (e.g. "Firefox") so they don't get treated differently than a human visitor would.

No, I haven't seen any 'blips' in the numbers. They have been steadily climbing since the first of the month, as expected.

Clicky's visitor stats do correspond with the number of opt-in form impressions being reported to me by Aweber, which also uses javascript. I can see how this certainly makes Clicky easier to understand and preferable to analytics programs that do not distinguish between humans and robots.

It appears, perhaps, that Clickbank should do the same!

Thanks!

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