Google Analytics vs. Google Adsense

[loutam]

Can someone explain to me the difference between Adsense page impression quantity and analytics site visit quantity?

My guess is that the analytic # is just the 1 time site visit vs. the page impression report which collects the total # of page visits for the site.

example visitor visits site and reads 3 story's. Therefore 1 for analytics and 3 for page impressions. Is that correct? Thanks in advance.

[corcor]

As far as I know your right, google analytics also track page impressions so you could compare. Adsense just tracks page impressions because thats all that matters to adsense, analytics tracks page visits, impressions, avg. pages per visit, time on site, exit pages, popular pages..etc because it's analytis job to tell you the overall performance of your site rather than ammount of ads shown

[stephen todd]

Re.
example visitor visits site and reads 3 story's. Therefore 1 for analytics and 3 for page impressions. Is that correct? Thanks in advance.



Yes, that's right - adsense impressions can be compared to "page views", and analytics is "unique visitors"

I have a single ad block on all my blog site's pages - makes a good "page view" counter, as javascript can't be triggered by bots - an added bonus to the money I make from adsense[/u]

Analytics can waste a huge amount of your time - I prefer to use my time to just keep churning out the content and keep my page impressions count high, rather than analyze traffic stats

[janexus]

"javascript can't be triggered by bots"

@stephen todd. I'm quite sure that isn't accurate.

[stephen todd]

Originally Posted by janexus

"javascript can't be triggered by bots"

@stephen todd. I'm quite sure that isn't accurate.

Been out of the SEO game for a while, but SEO's have always used javascript redirects for trickery - knowing search bots can't tell what's going on as they can't trigger the javascript redirect

Rumours did circulate that bots were improving

Last I heard bots still can't handle javascript code - Nathan will know

It's not a technical issue - browsers can handle the code - but search bots were simply not programmed to do so - probably because they are overworked anyway and speed of crawling is more important than ability to handle javascript

[Nathan]

Nathan will know

There is definitely a lot of back and forth argument about whether or not Google bot executes JavaScript:

Here is someone who says that Google bot can:

Googlebot Can Execute JavaScript on Web Pages

Personally I believe, at least from what I have seen, that Google bot executes certain types of code, but not everything. For example if you hide a redirect in an object class or a function that is executed in the onload event handler of a page element or in some other event handler it is unlikely that Google will handle that. Basically Google bot doesn't execute everything. It would be a tremendous strain on Google, even more than just indexing everything on the internet.

[stephen todd]

Originally Posted by Nathan

Personally I believe, at least from what I have seen, that Google bot executes certain types of code,

I agree

Imagine this - search bots trigger adsense javascript

Adwords advertisers go bancrupt due to massive click fraud perpetraded by bots

Adsense publishers get a sudden boost of wealth and google closes the adsense program


Not going to happen I know - my visitor stats show 4 to 4.5 times more visitors than adsense impressions - If bots could trigger adsense then my visitor stats and adsense impressions would match up

[trytolearnmore]

Analytics - tracks your stats

Adsense - ads that when clicked bring you extra cashed (You can't click your ads)