I am using Joomla, with Google analytics, the standard Joomla counter/visitor status and an added page counter.

 

The problem is none of them match, they all give completely different readings.

 

Google might say I have 5 people online, Joomla will say 1 plus me and the third party add-on might say 3 but with only 1 visitor today in total :-S

 

I honestly don't know what to believe!

 

The reason for the third party add-on was that I wanted a widget on the home page that only I would see when I log-in, so I can get a quick idea of how many visitors are online and how many I have had so far.

Different stats systems rarely tell the same story!

Yeah that's true, usually all the metrics/stats programs have different results..

you can never can tell. i would suggest stick to only one system. if you use two or more, you would be totally confused. lol