Is it possible to have more than 100% new visitors on a website?
Have you ever heard that a website has received more than 100% new visitors? Today I saw the same on one of my website, although I have never seen such type of incidents in my life that any website has got more than 100% of new visitors. Also consider a fact that I too have opened my website at least for once on my PC, and how come even I too was considered as a new visitor? I am not sure if it is one sort of flow or anything else.
Few people were thinking about, what is the matter which I am saying? Let me clear them, today when I was checking the analytics of one of my website, I truly became surprised to see that today my site has received 101.21% new visitors which won’t be true any how. You can also check the image below:
The matter of consideration is that according to normal mathematics more than 100% is not at all possible, while my stats are showing this. I am using Google Analytics for the traffic analysis of the website. Now it can either be a flow in the Analytics or it is a temporary effect. There is in fact some serious flow behind this.
I am not aware if any one has also seen such type of stats for their website, if yes then please discuss with us. Practically speaking why I am surprised to see this stat because whatever Mathematics I know suggests me that more that 100% is not possible and Google is such a big company that they won’t be able to make such type of mistake.
Just saw two more examples on my websites data: (These are from another website)
Another one:
It seems that you’re not the only one experiencing this problem. Check this thread opened yesterday on Google Analytics support forum:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Analytics/thread?tid=16a4345b55d107d4&hl=en
Mate, thanks for your valuable time to post the comment, but if you see the thread you can easily analyze that these two are completely different issues.
Google analytic #Fail
It is not completely different, it is very similar. Neither the unique visitors, nor the new visitors can be higher than the visits.
If you had more than 100% new visits, you also had unique visitors more than the visits – the same as this person on the G Analytics forum.
If he had 114 visitors and 100 visits, there is a great possibility that he had more than 100% new visits, but he didn’t post that value.
More than 100% means that your visitor base is growing.