6 questions about stats
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There are a bunch of things that don’t make sense about WordPress stats. Here they are. I’m sure I’m not getting it: maybe others can clarify.
In no special order:
1. WordPress says: “Just a note: we don’t count your own visits to your blog.” But they do, sometimes. Sometimes, I go back and edit an ancient post that nobody ever looks at. A couple of minutes later, there it appears on the list of visited posts. This doesn’t happen always, but it DOES happen occasionally. Why?
2. How can some people possibly reach my blog via some of the words allegedly used as search terms? Somebody got to my blog by putting “Germany” into Google?
3. “People clicked links from these pages to get to your blog.” In what way is that different from “Incoming links?” This is an obscure distinction and needs clarifying.
4. Why have a daily “Top Posts & Pages” list limited to 25? There is absolutely no reason why a complete list should not be offered each day. Some blogs get many visits to older posts.
5. It’s nice to look at the monthly stats to get a sense of how your blog has grown right from the day it was launched. But why limit that record to 16 months? That means that to get a full historical chart of your blog you have to do your own spreadsheet? (I know you get a rather clumsy-looking summary under “Summary Tables” that does go back to the start.) There’s plenty of space on the screen to offer more than 16 months, but even if there weren’t, why couldn’t WordPress offer limitless horizontal scrolling? (Is there some reason why horizontal scrolling is little utilized on the web? We’re all supposed to think of scrolling in vertical terms.)
6. Why don’t we get a lot more information about who visitors are, where they are, and what is being measured and how? What counts as a visit? And one more point, not related to stats.
Why do pingbacks look like this?
Newer post « Blogname Says:
This is confusing and ugly. Why not just a heading that says: “The following posts on Blogname link to this post”. Followed by a list of the posts.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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I’m sorry but we volunteers in the forums can’t provide answers to your stats questions. You will need to contact staff. http://support.wordpress.com/contact/
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Why do you keep reposting the same questions?
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Because you told me they were in the wrong place, Raincoaster. So I moved them! I don’t “keep reposting” them and, incidentally, I can if I want to! But I appreciate these are more of a WP staff issue, but I thought others might have views.
Thanks.
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1. If you’re not logged in we may count your own visits to your own blog.
2. There are a lot of search engines out there.
3. One is from your stats (referrers) and the other is from Google Blogsearch.
4. So the page doesn’t take too long to load, but no good reason other than that.
5. Have you tried looking at Summary Tables? It’s linked from “Blog Stats” box.
6. A visit is a pageview. Better stats are on our roadmap.
Pingbacks look that way because they grab the title of the page. No good reason other than that.
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Is there a way I can find out how many visits a particular post has had. I mean, that isn’t one of the top posts?
What about how many people visit just because they have my site bookmarked and they check it periodically?
Thanks
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