Whats more accurate StatCounter.com or CPANEL?

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So I'm getting 500+ uniques everyday on cpanel but couple days ago I added a statcounter to my main site and here are the results:

Day Date Page Loads Unique Visitors First Time Visitors Returning Visitors
Friday 6th February 2009 656 126 113 13
Thursday 5th February 2009 5,987 1,041 985 56
Wednesday 4th February 2009 7,877 1,476 1,411 65
Tuesday 3rd February 2009 7,134 1,482 1,445 37
Monday 2nd February 2009 1,057 187 181 6
Sunday 1st February 2009 0 0 0 0

So if you cant read that it says

Friday(today) 126
Thursday 1,041
Wednesday 1,476
Tuesday 1,482
Monday 187

So which one do I believe, cpanel with 500 or statcounter with double or even triple the amount?
 
Use google analytics, its incredibly accurate and collects all kinds of data that is very useful. but to answer your question, I would take Cpanel's word over statcounter's
 
CPanel is server-side and statcounter is client-side. I don't use Cpanel or StatCounter for analytics, but server-side will capture spider visits whereas a client-side package may not. However it may also be capturing hits to various images on page loads, I'm not familiar enough with that package to know.

Most CPanel-enabled hosting accounts provide server-side packages such as AW Stats, Webalizer and such, and those are much more accurate and do not present hits to images mixed in with actual visits, plus you'll be able to see what spiders are crawling your site and how often.

The client-side version of Google analytics is decent, but it doesn't capture spider visits and sometimes doesn't load the javascript when site visits do occur, so it's not as accurate as those I cited above.

I tend to use both on sites that can afford to load some extra code and not compromise page load time.

Hope that made sense.
 
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