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Hello everyone. I tried to find the answer here: https://www.daniweb.com/digital-media/digital-marketing/search-engine-strategies/threads/516774/google-analytics-vs-ahrefs but it didn't help. Can anyone explain?

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Member Avatar for rproffitt

Let me start with an observation.

A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches isn't quite sure.

There is no reason to expect these to match as they are by two companies and as such should not match. There is no mystery here.

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They track different things. Google Analytics is javascript that you place on your webpages to track how many visitors you have, and demographics about each of your visitors. It can also track conversions and a whole slew of things.

Ahrefs is an SEO tool that is typically used to track backlinks.

It’s true that it’s often the case that as your backlink count increases, your organic SEO traffic increases, so you may see a correlation between the two analytics platforms. However, that’s because they each track their own separate things that happen to have a cause/effect between them.

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Organic traffic in Ahrefs is calculated based on the keywords that we see your website is ranking for and the search volume of these keywords. It will be different from the traffic numbers in Google Analytics for a number of reasons: 1. The exact search volume of keywords 2. CTR model 3. Ahrefs doesn’t track ALL the keywords that a website is ranking for in organic search results

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Ahrefs and Google Analytics are the most popular tools for keyword research and backlink tracking. While both products are great, Ahrefs is preferred by our reviewers to Google Analytics in terms of product support.

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Google Analytics is a google tool that helps to analyze our own website performance like website visitors' behavior, website traffic details, etc.
Ahref is an SEO tool that helps in checking backlinks, keyword research, website ranking performance, competitor website analysis.

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