Pageviews difference in Blogger, Analytics and Adsense

If you have a blogspot  or blogger account and you have enabled Google analytics and adsense, one common confusion is the difference in page views. Usually blogspot account shows page views way higher than analytics and adsense account. For example if I take a representative statistics, it's as follows:

• Page views in Blogger : 907
• Page views in Analytics : 267
• Page views in Adsense : 203

You might see different numbers but the general pattern is 

Page views of Blogger > Page views of analytics > Page views of Adsense.

Why this happens? Let's look into what is counted as page views in three scenarios.

Page views in Blogger

Blogger counts all the page views when a page is accessed by anyone including human and bots. For more about bots, you can follow here. A rough estimate tells around 60% of traffic comes from bots which is excluded in other two scenarios. This explains a very high number for blogger page views. Blogger gives an option to exclude your page views, but I will leave that as a personal choice. 

Page views in Analytics

Analytics excludes all the traffic from bots and only tries to include page views from human users. One important bot traffic is the traffic from search engines and there are quite a few search engines in web right now.

Another scenario where the page view can be excluded in analytics is, when a user aborts the page before letting it load completely. Usually the analytics code is put at the bottom part of a web page. So if the user aborts the page before letting it load completely, it will count as a page view in blogger but will not get counted in analytics.

Page views in Adsense

Sadly page views are lowest in Adsense :). Adsense loads the images in an iframe so that is another request to adsense server to fetch the ads. Even though you have enabled ad, it's quite possible that the ads may not be displayed as no one has bid for the ad for that particular instance. The other possibility is that people would have enabled ad blockers, so the ad may not get displayed on your page. These two are primary reasons of difference between page views in adsense and analytics.

For seeing how many ad request are happening for your web site and how many are getting served, check Performance Reports. In performance reports, on left hand side look into section of Ad

Adsense coverage

To get a better idea about the traffic you can also look into the source of traffic in different systems. This will give you an idea about from where you are getting your traffic.

Hopefully this gives you an idea about the difference in page views in different systems. What kind of page difference you see in your case?

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