Theory because I have no idea how the stats are calculated: does one take the browser cache into consideration? Meaning, does AWStats just track the bytes actually transfered, as opposed to the total size of the webpage including graphics?
I'll try to explain better: say you have a graphic intensive website. You log in, download the graphics. AWStats and the other stats track it properly right now - you've downloaded (for example) 30kb of images, and 10kb of html code.
You come back the next day. You still have all the images in your cache so they don't get downloaded again. AWStats tracks the 10kb of html that you download again but doesn't count the images since they never got transfered. However, the other stats still counts you for 30kb of images even though you already had them.
Just a thought, but it still wouldn't account for a gap of 2gb (unless my example of 30kb in images is unrealistic and it's closer to 100 or something). Probably wrong (I know next to nothing about the HTTP protocol and how AWStats and the other statistics thing work), but just a thought. Feel free to have a mod take this post and put "Removed - total BS" in it's place if I'm wrong (or tell me and I'll do it ^_^ )
