The big gap between external campaign report and the referring domains

[pang_yiyuan]

Our site has a traffic peak Sep-Nov so I searched the referring domains report and external campaign report to find the reason, but external campaign report has such a big gap in page views and visits  with the referring domains report, and one of our most referral site has not appeared in the referring domains report, but it jumpID appeared only in external campaign report; I don;t know why cause this...

and another question is the total visits number is much more than the daily visits, for example we got 8000 visits in Sep-Nov by adding daily visits, but in SiteCatalyst, the total visits up to 300,000; what’s the difference between Visits and the total visits number appeared in SiteCatalyst, and why they have such a big gap?

Thank you so much for your kindly help:) 

Merry Christmas and Happy new year!!

[devinderbanga · Accepted solution]

Hi

SiteCatalyst measures visits by a calculation based on the unique visitor cookie, the page views by that visitor, and
the visit timeout period. The unique visitor cookie helps to prevent re-counting. If a browser does not accept
persistent cookies, SiteCatalyst does not calculate a visit for that visitor.

A visit begins when a person first views a page on your company's website

Use the Daily Unique Visitors Report to determine how many unique individuals
visited your site during the current day.
A visitor counts as a daily unique visitor if this is the first time today they visited
the site.

Regards

Devinder