Stats problem, my pageviews dropped by x 10 !!

[Benj]

Hi, I have a serious stats problem.
I had a site hosted by lame webhosting.com using ubb.
My daily page views were arround 6000 - 10000.

I moved to futurequest, and converted my UBB to Vbulletin (PHP+Mysql). Now I have more visits than ever on i had on Webhosting.com, but my daily pageviews are now 600-900 per day !!!

This is absolutely not normal. Does the stats used by FQ have a problem with PHP files ?
My forum generates pages with showthread.php?threadid=xxxx

I know stats ignore what is after the "?" could this be the problem because the stats ignore what is after the "?" ?

Example: Yesterday, I had 876 sessions. At MINIMUM, I have at LEAST 3 page views per sessions, because my site is a forum, and some users spend hours on it making lots of pageviews; so at LEAST my pageviews should be 876x3 which is about 2500, and the pageviews shows 925 ! 876 sessions can't make only 925 page views on my site, I have even a day (the first day on FQ) where the sessions are superior to page views.

This is impossible, something is going wrong.

Benj

[jimbo]

See this thread:
http://www.aota.net/ubb/Forum5/HTML/000731-1.html

Also see this thread:
http://www.aota.net/ubb/Forum5/HTML/000753-1.html

And I also answered your question in this thread:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...?threadid=1417

I would make sure that you are interpreting the stats programs for each host correctly.  My p/v's have gone up since switching from UBB to vB, but I've been here the whole time.  I would be willing to wager that the problem lies somewhere within the changing of stats programs.

[Benj]

Well It doesn't help.
800 sessions for 900 pageviews is wrong, no matter how I interpret the stats.

Benj

[Brian]

Most likely the problem is a difference in stats programs. Some of the above links might also shed some light into some of what you are noticing. Right now php & php3 files are counted as page views, so that should not be it either.

At any rate we planning on moving to a new stats program in the near future.

-Brian

[Carlos]

I have the same problem. For example, yesterday i had 13,950 sessions and only 16,270 page views. I know that my page views are much more than that because I have separated statistics for banner ads. All my pages are generated dynamically using PHP and MySql so I believe it has something to do with the problem. I think each page of the type mydomain.com/page?xyz is counted only once and all the pages that are created on the fly changing the variables after the question mark are not being counted at all. A new statistics program would be welcome.
[This message has been edited by Carlos (edited 06-27-00@4:34 pm)]