Tag: ghostery

Which stats to trust: Google analytics, Host or WordPress Blog Stats?

I'm using Google Analytics, awstats from cpanel, and a few plugins for wordpress (statpress, wassup). Except Google Analytics they all have unreadable interfaces with a lot of info, that I do not understand.

They all give me different results. I would like to know which one is correct or at least close to the truth. Another problem is Ghostery, which I use - a browser plugin that can block Google Analytics which automatically make its statistics wrong. Recently I was bombarded with requests from Russia and StatPress says Russia is the place where I get most of the requests, which is not right. Until I get an unambiguous answer I'll keep them all running.

What do you think - which gives the best (closest to the truth) stats?

Ghostery

Few days ago I opened The Pirate Bay and was astonished to find it full of ads. Sometime later it happened with another site. Finally, I found the problem. AdBlock was stopped. AdBlock is the plugin that must come preinstalled with every browser. It kills (removes) almost all ads from sites. It's easy to use and to customize (add more sites or ads to the block list).

Georgi said he found something that could accessorize AdBlock even further. Ghostery

sees the invisible web - tags, web bugs, pixels and beacons. Ghostery tracks the trackers and gives you a roll-call of the ad networks, behavioral data providers, web publishers, and other companies interested in your activity.

Since Firefox for Mac is awful. I'm using Chrome which is quite poor on the plugin front. But this one is available for Chrome and works pretty nice: