Country stats not accurate
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I’ve had my blog three months. Until a few days ago, the stats and country views matched. Now I am getting a lot more viewers than appear on the country list, and I am getting hits from Europe in the middle of their night, which can’t be right. I marked as spam two spam referral sites (one was semalt) and am no longer getting hits from Romania, Brazil, and Ukraine.
I am getting no traffic from the US. It’s a US site, and US traffic had previously dominated except for hits from some European friends I have.
This is a tiny blog that I haven’t really promoted yet, with virtually no readership. Anyone know what’s going on?
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Hi there,
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Um, okay. I don’t know what that means, timethief. I did subscribe. It looks like the topic has been tagged modlook? Did you add that?
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Yes I added it :) because I thought maybe as you were new you would not know what I meant. Please be patient while waiting for Staff reply.
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Okay, thanks! I am really baffled by all this. I chose WordPress.com for now as I did not want to worry about spam filters and what not.
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I know it’s safe, but it’s so small that this fake traffic is, like, all my traffic at this point. I just asked someone I know to click in for me and see if I can register a US hit. It’s just weirding me out. But thanks for the reassurance!
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Hello Valerie –
Your site is secure. Sporadic traffic from all over the globe is perfectly normal. Numbers will fluctuate, especially on a site which you are not actively promoting.
You have a really nice site, I’ve spent a lot of time in Maine and I’m familiar with the area a little bit. :)
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It’s just strange how it all changed overnight like that or how I would appeal only to European insomniacs. But I guess that’s how it goes! Thanks for the compliment on my blog.
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The internet works in strange ways –
I woke up one morning to find someone from I think Finland had put one of my low traffic (3 to 5 a day average page views) on their Facebook thing and I got I think 65 page views
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