Are site stats off or did I make a mistake with my mirror site?

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  readytochangenow · Member · Feb 18, 2012 at 7:11 pm

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  I just created a sandbox, or pretend blog, to play with themes on this morning. All the text is placeholder text so I can what formatting looks like.

  In one hour I have supposedly had 125 views even though each page is set to private.

  So far one of my most successful posts ever – but not sure how or why people are seeing it.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  justjennifer · Member · Feb 18, 2012 at 7:14 pm

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  If the entire site is set to private, the hits you are seeing are you.

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  readytochangenow · Member · Feb 18, 2012 at 7:17 pm

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  Doh – I forgot about that – thank you justjennifer.

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  timethief · Member · Feb 18, 2012 at 7:20 pm

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  I believe that Staff are working on site stats and moving them all to the main page of WordPress.com . Also note that “Your own visits to your blog (for logged-in users of public blogs only)” are being recorded and Staff can enter you blog as well.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/

  In one hour I have supposedly had 125 views even though each page is set to private.

  IMO it makes no sense to individually set each page or post to “private” in a mirror blog. What makes sense is to use the privacy settings and set the entire blog to “private”.

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  timethief · Member · Feb 18, 2012 at 7:20 pm

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  oops! I failed to refresh.

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  readytochangenow · Member · Feb 19, 2012 at 1:35 pm

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  Thank you Timethief – I had set the blog to private and then while I was working I saw page views so I set each page to private thinking I had done it wrong.

  I forgot that the page views where my own :-|

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  timethief · Member · Feb 19, 2012 at 9:42 pm

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  You’re welcome.