Click on the "Display Help" link at the bottom of the "General Summary" report and it'll explain how the "This Week" values are calculated. The "This week" value is calculated each day using the previous 7 days of statistics and doesn't start on any particular day of the week.

Still doesn't add up, at least it doesn't look that way when I look at the monthly visits graph....

ms caltechgirl,

my feb 11,2005 post in deep throat contest appears to have won. who do i see about "prize"?

kennnthomas

Site Meter has always been funky. Even when it's doing things exactly as it's supposed to by its own rules, it tends to appear funky.

What I usually notice is this:

Go and look at main screen and see you have had, say, 100 visitors. Look at referrers and see that the latest referrer is xyzblog that's rare enough it's an obvious demarcation.

Go a while later. Visitors is 102 even though 2 seems low for the amount of time passed. Look at referrers. There have been 25 new referrers since the one for xyzblog.

Not overstating it; it can be that far off and more. It seems to catch up now and then, but there seems to be a lag in recalculating and displaying correctly, and I discovered that if you took the meter and took the daily hits and tracked them day after day, it averages off, with the meter displaying fewer than Site Meter claims internally that you got.

I used to obsess. I stopped, but I still get irked by it. The consolation is that "everybody" uses Site Meter* and so we are all comparably miscounted.

* Not true, but enough true that it bugs the crap out of me when someone doesn't, though not as much as when someone does but it's passworded.