GA vs GSC, who has any idea?

Judging by GA I Have 1062(all new) users from Organic Search, so that would mean 1062 clicks between 1st of July and 10th of July.

If I go to GSC for the same time frame it says an average of 8 clicks.

Any intel?

Have you configured GSC domain wise or a single URL?

For example, in my case, for one of my props, it's exactly the opposite

GSC:


GA:



This never matches. If I had to trust, I would go GA. Personally I moved to Matomo some months ago, and I find Matomo and GA stats almost the same, and I trust Matomo 1000%, so basicallyI would say that GA is trustable also. But GSC is kind of awkward. GSC is more like Ahrefs and this kind of software: estimations for things, they basically sum up the total clicks for all searches, which generally is not 100% real (not sure which approach the take to make this up, sometimes I believe they do estimations based on impressions and average CTR for such query, instead of showing the real data.

Organic users include users from Bing, yahoo, google, duckduckgo etc. Google Search Console will, of course, only hold data from Google.

Users can be higher than clicks because you are getting organic users from different search engines other than Google.
Clicks can be higher than users because a single user can click your website in the SERP multiple times - each click will be counted, but they will still be counted as a single user.

chipsie1102 said:

Organic users include users from Bing, yahoo, google, duckduckgo etc. Google Search Console will, of course, only hold data from Google.

Users can be higher than clicks because you are getting organic users from different search engines other than Google.
Clicks can be higher than users because a single user can click your website in the SERP multiple times - each click will be counted, but they will still be counted as a single user.

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In that exact time frame.

1058 from google, all 1058 are new.

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In that exact time frame.

1058 from google, all 1058 are new.

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That's interesting. Have you checked the different Search types in GSC performance report? (web, image, video, news, discovery etc) You might be getting a chunk of your traffic from Google News for example, which wouldn't show on your GSC chart without changing the Search type.

If that doesn't check out, then I'm pretty stumped on why you have such as massive discrepancy.

You might be getting hit by bots that claim they are being referred by Google but are just faking the referrer string. So GA will treat them as unique visitors but GSC won't know anything about them.

If GSC 2ere meant to be relied upon to provide click through rate and visitor data etc, GA wouldn't exist.

GSC is meant to show you how your site is doing in search and what areas it is excelling on or needs improvement in order to rank better in search

GA is meant to provide data about your users, where they come from, what they do where they go how long they stay there, where they go immediately after and what Drew them to you.

Use each of them for their intended purpose and you won't be confused

For me GSC stats are always lower than my GA. I rely on both GSC give me direction and GA full statistics (My GA organic traffic is always more).

SirLouen said:

GSC is more like Ahrefs and this kind of software: estimations for things, they basically sum up the total clicks for all searches, which generally is not 100% real (not sure which approach the take to make this up, sometimes I believe they do estimations based on impressions and average CTR for such query, instead of showing the real data.

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I totally agree with this. GSC is summarized data, not actuals. I don't have any proof, just personal observation.