Are robots and web spiders tracked?
• Are there javascript or HTML validation errors in some of the pages? Are both systems tracking the same pages? You’ll probably want to put the Site Meter HTML on all the pages of your site so that you’ll know the traffic to your site as a whole. If the HTML for the counter isn’t on a page of your site when that page loads, Site Meter won’t know about it and it won’t be counted. If Site Meter is just on the home page of your site, you should make sure the other system is just tracking the traffic to your home page. If you are getting search engine traffic, a lot of the time, they are entering your site on a page other than the home page. It is important that Site Meter is also on the other non-home pages (so it can track that traffic). Site Meter isn’t included on .RSS, .XML, .CSS or cgi pages or graphic files (so it can’t track the traffic to them). Including those in your reports for the other traffic system will overstate the “Page View” traffic to your site. Is the same thing bein
