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It is highly unlikely that any two products will report an identical number of visitors to a Web site. Here's one reason why:

Robots and spiders (search engine agents) regularly visit Web sites in order to index these Web sites in their search engines and directories. Since robots and spiders are not living human beings, you probably don't want them to be counted as visitors to your Web site.

NetTracker automatically filters out many robots and spiders from your list of visitors. Chances are that no two products use the exact same list of robots and spiders, so no two products will report exactly the same number of visitors.

NetTracker has one of the most extensive lists of robots and spiders and allows you to quickly and easily filter out new robots and spiders as they come into existence. Because of this, NetTracker frequently reports a lower number of visitors to a Web site than a competing product, but our visitors are actual human beings--the ones who purchase products and services online.

Some of the other variables that can affect the number of visitors are the length of time between visits, the number of excluded pages, and how hosts are grouped. If these variables are not the same in both analysis products, the products will report different results.