Accuracy of the site stats
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When there’s a fresh article and only a few views… It’s easier to see numbers that don’t seem to add up. I just posted an article this morning and it shows the following contradictory stats.
1 Visitor
3 Views
3 Different countriesHow can I have only 1 visitor but from 3 different countries?
Also, I have many times had more people ‘like’ an article than this tool shows have ‘viewed’ it. Seems the ‘views’ and ‘visitors’ numbers are often low and it’s only obvious when the numbers are low enough to see it.
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Views and viewers and views by country take hours to up date as our stats are not real time stats.
https://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/#views-and-visitors
https://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/#views-by-countryOur stats are page view stats. If I visit your blog and click into 10 posts that will be recorded as 1 visitor and 10 page views. But please do not assume that everyone who clicks a follow, like, share, reblog or comment link actually reads the post on your blog because odds are they may not.
Follow, like, share, reblog or comment clicks are not page views. In fact, follows, likes, shares, comments and reblogs are completely misleading when you are talking about page view stats.
Your followers and anyone with a WordPress.com/Gravatar account who is logged into WordPress.com can “follow” your blog, “like”, “share” and “reblog” your posts and “comment” in several locations such as the Reader, without ever clicking into your blog and creating a single page view stat. Subscribers control how frequently they receive your posts (instantly, daily, weekly) and can comment without clicking into the blog.
Logged in wordpress.com members can read full posts in the wordpress.COM Reader now, so there is no incentive for them to click into your site.
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