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I am using a simple bit of PHP code in my header file which increments a counter in my SQL database by 1 once per PHP session. I’ve tested this and it works fine.
However when I leave it for a day the counter has gone up by way more than I believe it should, and comparing this to the pageview counter in my Google Analytics it is far too high.
What could be happening and how could I stop this?
Google-analytics has a very different way of counting visits than a simple session based counter. I can’t tell you exactly how it counts it because it is very closed source on that aspect but there is definitely cookies, sessions and javascript involved.
If you want my opinion. I built my own stat system once and it was hell with all those robots detection, trends, false visits. I switched to GA and it was worse because the client then started complaining that the numbers werent the same in both sites.
IMO? Don’t use both, make up your own or use GA only, but not the two, you’ll probably NEVER hit the same numbers.
Good luck