Is it possible to have more than 100% new visitors on a website?

Posted on May 5, 2009 by Alok Vats

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:

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About Alok Vats

Hi friends, my name is Alok Vats, and I am an Experienced Internet Marketing Specialist. I am the owner and founder of the blogs like Tech Acid, I News India and many more. I am basically a Search Engine Optimization expert and consultant. I am working in the field of SEO from last 7 years, and helping business and blog owners to use online marketing methods to increase the sales and business for their company, the prime target of mine is to spent less and attain more visitors and customers to your website. My online marketing strategies have increased the sales for a client by around 200% within a time span of 6 months only. From my busy schedule I always try to update my blogs with quality information which I came through either news or through social bookmarking sites. I can be helpful to people who are looking for attracting more business and to increase sales through their website. Some of my specialities includes, SEO, SEM, SMO, IM, SEO Manager, Marketing Manager, Online Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Blogging Expert, Blog Marketing, etc.
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5 Responses to Is it possible to have more than 100% new visitors on a website?

  1. just another webmaster says:
    May 6, 2009 at 8:19 am

    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

  2. admin says:
    May 6, 2009 at 8:30 am

    Mate, thanks for your valuable time to post the comment, cut if you see the thread you can easily analyze that these two are completely different issues.

  3. Harsh Agrawal says:
    May 6, 2009 at 11:33 am

    Google analytic #Fail

  4. just another webmaster says:
    May 6, 2009 at 11:44 am

    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.

  5. T'jay says:
    May 6, 2009 at 10:47 pm

    More than 100% means that your visitor base is growing.

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