The stats for my site are completely different to StatCounter Global stats – why?
There are two difficulties with trying to use the stats for a single website to calculate market share information: • The sample size is generally very small i.e. only the visitors to that one website • The user stats for a single website can be skewed due to the type of person who visits that site. For example, all visitors may be in a certain age group or may have a particular interest area. This can influence the browser/operating system/search engine used. The StatCounter Global Stats analysis is based on over 5 billion hits per month, by a random sample of people worldwide, to 3 million global websites, covering multiple interest areas and geographic locations. • I have noticed a problem/discontinuity in the Global Stats data. # At StatCounter we track over 5 billion hits per month on the StatCounter network of more than 3 million websites. We publish a summary of the activity that we track via StatCounter Global Stats. In the case of some countries/regions (e.g. Antarctica) the s
