Comments on posts, but no views on Site Stats for that post.

  • Unknown's avatar
    uktocostaricablog · Member ·

    Hi,

    I’ve tried looking on the forums but couldn’t see this exact issue, I’m sure I have just missed something obvious.

    I’ve been getting comments on certain posts, but then when I looked at the views for that post in and around the day nothing is registering.

    A couple of weeks ago I had 5 comments in one night on a single post, but as of now that post has only one view?

    Thanks

    Steve

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

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    timethief · Member ·

    Are you providing full posts in the Reader?

    Do note that our stats are not real time stats, so both the views and viewers and views by country https://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/#views-by-country take hours to update.

    Our 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 visitors using a mobile can read the full post without creating a page view stat. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/wordpresscom-reader-show-full-text?replies=31#post-1373606

    You can control the length of the entry sent out on your RSS feed here Dashboard > Settings > Reading. Choose the “summary” setting for your RSS feed rather than to “full text”. That will compel followers who are not using mobiles to click into the blog to read the full post which will create a page view stat.

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    uktocostaricablog · Member ·

    Thanks..

    So people can comment without actually clicking on the site?

    Is this why in the example above, all the commenter’s emails were different, but the URL above this and under their name in the comments page is virtually the same. I assume this is a share type situation.

    Thanks for the tip on the reader too..sounds like a plan..

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    timethief · Member ·

    Yes, indeed they can.

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    uktocostaricablog · Member ·

    Thanks again..

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    timethief · Member ·

    You’re welcome and best wishes for happy blogging. :) ( No reply expected.)

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