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:

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Comments

5 responses to “Is it possible to have more than 100% new visitors on a website?”

  1. just another webmaster Avatar
    just another webmaster

    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 Avatar
    admin

    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.

  3. Harsh Agrawal Avatar
    Harsh Agrawal

    Google analytic #Fail

  4. just another webmaster Avatar
    just another webmaster

    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 Avatar
    T’jay

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

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