accuracy of blog stats?
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quick point of clarification, like most bloggers here at wordpress.com, i promote my posts through twitter and use a URL shortening service (tr.im or bit.ly) to track the click throughs on each link. is there a reason why tr.im/bit.ly would reports > 100 click throughs to a blog post (even after subtracting the “bots” hitting the link) and my blog stats page reports just five hits to that post all day?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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WordPress.com stats does not track any bot of any kind.
So you may have to factor in more bots.
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/nod to dreamburnred
The following are not counted:
* Visits from registered users of the blog when they are not logged in.
* Visits to uploaded documents and files
* Visits from browsers that do not execute javascript or load images.
* GoogleBot and other search engine spiders.
More information here http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/ -
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@dreamsburnred sure, but 100 clicks down to five views?
@timethief what does the “views from browsers that do not execute javascript or laod images” mean? does that mean mobile browsers like the blackberry?
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It could firefox users who have no script which will block things that like.
Blackberry and other smartphones support javascript.
Twitter seems to have a ton of bots following it, so wordpress will ignore them.
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I use http://statcounter.com because the WP stats are kinda weak. Might wanna try adding a secondary stat counter to compare. :)
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