Difference Between Google Analytics and Google Webmaster Tool

[kellymartina17]

Difference Between Google Analytics and Google Webmaster Tool

[jackfernandos]

Analytic tool is used to analyze all traffic to your website .Webmaster is used to submit sitemap, robots and analyze website performance on google search engine.

[michaelbrandon84]

It is a little bit confusing concept. Thanks for defining the difference.

[Prem Mohan]

Google Analytics define the all activity of visitors and Google Webmaster is a best way to manage of you website crawling and keywords position.

[sabbirahmed4545]

yes above definition is right

[hmsplsathish]

Webmaster - Search Console, used to find out impressions, visits of your web page.
Analytics - Track your visitors and find out the page views, sessions etc.

[tuneup01]

Google Analytics tells about Traffic, Visitors and their behavior and Google Webmaster Tools is all about website related as it gives information about Site's performance, Sitemap update, Robots.txt, Link-Analysis, 404 page and more.

[RupisResort]

Google analytics measures the traffic of your website, behavior flow, social audience & google webmaster tool will give the idea for you site errors, website performance, sitemap update, robot.txt, 404 errors , links to your site etc.

[Ania]

Google Analytics give you an insight of your visitors, traffic - all data that help you analyse movement on your site. Google Webmaster helps you to manage your site, reports about the errors that may have occuered, how many pages are indexed etc

[AliceGross]

A. Google Analytics


Google Analytics is one of the most widely used web analytics applications. It will give you the following information.


1. Visitor Reports


The total number of visitors your website has. It also specifies what are the number of new visitors and returning visitors


The time that your visitors spend on your site.


The amount of pages your visitors view.


The amount of visitors who landed on your site and left immediately.


Geographical location of your website visitors


The websites which referred visitors to your site.


2. Web traffic Reports


Total number of of people visiting your site on a daily, monthly and yearly basis. It also provides your traffic stats to previous years.




. Google Webmaster Tools


Google Webmaster Tools reveals how Google looks your site online. Webmasters use this tool to fix problems with the site if any. It offers lot of tools for webmasters with which one can improve the visibility of the site and fix problems if any. It will give you the following information


1. Crawl Errors


Google webmaster tools give you information about the pages which Google is unable to crawl. This is a very important aspect because if Google cannot crawl your pages, your search engine visibility may go down. With the help of the tool, one can find out issues if any and resolve it.


2. Search Queries


This is information on your pages Google has returned to searchers for specific queries. The following information is available using webmaster tools.


Total number of search queries which returned pages from your site.


Your top search queries which returned pages in Google.


The number of times your pages were viewed in Google’s search results.


The number of times your listings were clicked on for a particular search query.


The percentage of times your listing was clicked for a particular search query.


The average position of your website for a particular search query.

[jacktaylor]

Google analytics is a website statistics tool focusing the website traffic.
Google Webmaster tool shows you how Google sees your site as a search engine.