180K visits (AWStats) v 45 (Matomo) -- what's up?

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Hi All – My AWstats reports 180,000 page loads yesterday, 63K unique visitors and 522K visits. Matomo is reporting 45 visits yesterday. How to determine why the huge difference? I find it hard to believe that almost 100% of my traffic is bots (although I presume that it’s possible). Any suggestions as to how to determine what’s going on?

Thanks
Adam

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Hi @argosan,

First queston: how do you track?

Also, can you see some common points on the visits/visitors that your Matomo tracks?
Eg, all IPs are internal, the only browser is Internet Explorer, etc.?

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We track using Matomo and AWStats. Also the few trackers that come with LAMP, like Web Visitors.

I have Matomo obscure the first two octals of the IP, so I can’t compare the addresses, but many of the addresses I see in AWStats are the same–lots of searches from single IPs–or are sequential–lots of searches from IPs that vary only by the last digit.

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Which Matomo method?

  • through log files analysis
  • via server-side API?
  • thanks to JavaScript?
  • with MTM?