Difference of statistics between Google analytics and cloudflare/plugin

[lazouille]

Hi,

I have a website for which both cloudflare and a wordpress plugin (wp statistics) indicate I receive about 300 unique visitors per day, but google analytics indicates only 1-2 visitors / day.

Who should I trust, and what could cause such a difference? I understand there are different ways to count unique visitors, but I can’t see how it’s possible to obtain such a big difference. Are there other things I can do to test what is my real traffic?

thanks

 

[TheMarquis]

both cloudflare and a wordpress plugin (wp statistics) indicate I receive about 300 unique visitors per day

These are also counting the bots, so it's safe to say that GA stats are the most accurate. For example, if you scan your site with PageSpeed Insights, there will be 2 extra visitors (the bot for desktop and the bot for mobile).

 

[Bratt57]

Google steal traffic man, they don't give 100% accurate statistic. Google Webmaster and GA are free, get paid service and you will see difference.
By the way there are a lot of script on Github where you can measure traffic by IP, time,country, behaviour and plus is telling you is bot or not for free