Issue Plesk visit Statistics are wrong

[paulmac]

Server operating system version

Ubuntu 20.04

Plesk version and microupdate number

18.0.42

Plesk statistics for my website show 381 visits for October 1st yet statcounter only shows 6 visits. Plesk is calculating well over.

The same is true for all my hosted websites in plesk going back many months Why is Plesk so far out ?

 

[Michael Gabriel]

pleks doesnt calculate anything.
awstats or webalizer do.

 

[paulmac]

pleks doesnt calculate anything.
awstats or webalizer do.

Whatever is calculating the stats is calculating it wrong, I would like to know why not what.

 

[Michael Gabriel]

for that one would have to know wether you are using awstats or webalizer.
beside that, they are log analyzers. statcounter i guess uses some js or something to track.
so it probably doesnt count bots and people that dont have js activated.

 

[mow]

What is counted as visits? Does statcounter define it in the same way as awstats/webalizer?
(e.g. how long do two accesses with the same [long-lived] session id have to be apart to be counted as separate visits?)