Alex Hardy

I continue to have difficulty with wildly different numbers reported by Mint and Google Analytics. I’m using the Google plugin by Semiologic for WordPress because it tracks outbound links in a handy way, but I just added the Mint JavaScript include code to header.php of my theme.

So far so good, the Google plugin even disables itself when I’m logged in. Alas, the same cannot be said for my Mint include. So all the time I have been logged in to WordPress, writing my fevered thoughts, Mint has been diligently recording pageviews that Google has not. D’oh!

A little poking around in the WordPress source finds my solution: the global variable that holds your user ID while logged in. So a little bit of PHP like so…

global $user_ID;

if (!$user_ID) {
	// Put the Mint JS include here
}

… and presto, one more discrepancy sorted.

I expect it will take a month or two for the stats to even out and for me to be able to confirm that.

Posted on Friday, March 23rd, 2007 at 8:16 pm under Toolbox. You can post a comment, or trackback from your own site.