Difference between views and visitors

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    janeadamsart · Member ·

    Hey – as soon as I bothered you with it again, the views-visits stats suddenly showed all the numbers since 3 Dec! So that’s OK now.
    I just did a quick count of today’s so far. Visitors 155. Countries 343. Views 395. Clicks on my blog (pictures) 14
    Why is there a difference between countries and views? I have always noticed it.
    I would like to understand better the posts and the clicks on my blog. The clicks on my pictures are not the same as the posts.
    But many of the views recorded in posts are pictures on the blog – pictures which are in galleries and not inserted into the post. Are these found externally by search engines, or internally by the visitor?
    I don’t want to waste your time, but can you give me any idea how it works? It might be nice to know! Thanks.
    Thanks also for the reminder to clear cookies, which I forgot about the last few weeks.

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    stonecoldtruth2011 · Member ·

    @zandyring Yes that helps. THANKS! and Happy New Year.

  • jblz · Staff ·

    @janeadamsart: when the Views by Country total is less than the total number of Views, it means our data provider wasn’t able to pinpoint the location to a country for some of your Visitors.

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    svetlanagrobman · Member ·

    I just started a new blog (in fact, I’m still building it), and I noticed a difference between my statistics (visitors, page views) and my actual visitors. My statistical data is 1 visitor, 7 view. However, I got 9 likes (9 unique visitors) and 2 followers. What’s wrong with my statistical data?

    Thanks,
    Svetlana Grobman

    The post I refer to is http://wp.me/p34Vxu-o (weekly challenge: Illumination)
    My blog is located at http://svetlanagrobman.wordpress.com/

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    marieschoenbach · Member ·

    Hi there,

    So far, I guess, I understood the difference between visitors and views, sounds actually pretty logical to me.
    BUT during the last hour, my stats say I had 1 visitor and 24 views, but from 5 different countries…??! I don’t get it.. How’s that even possible?

    Appreciate any help or advise, thnx!!

    http://www.Schoenbach-Jewelry.com

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    janeadamsart · Member ·

    Hallo – I also notice frequent discrepancies in the views countries visitors ratio. It might be due to the fact that some visits or views don’t get recorded as from countries – because my total from countries is usually less than the total of views. Maybe this is where readers use phones etc. I don’t know! I can’t even try to get my head around the math. I think WP continue to fine-tune things. So I regard my stats as an approximate indicator.

    The visitors count is delayed – we’ve been told – behind the views count. It takes a few hours or a day for it to stabilize. So you might find at least 5 visits for that time, later on today.

    Always nice to learn a bit more, how it works, however!

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