Disjunct between email notifications and blog stats

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    ryanemartinang · Member ·

    My stats do not display views, likes, follows, or any of the information, despite my receiving notification emails that they have been viewed. What’s going on? I’m fairly new to this, so… yeah.

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

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    danielisreading · Member ·

    You can see your stats here: http://wordpress.com/#!/my-stats/ You would have just gotten one from me (though they don’t represent real time stats, so it will take a little while to show up)

    Please note that people can like/follow/share your posts without actually viewing your post, as they can see it in the WordPress.com Reader, which doesn’t generate views on your site.

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    anniedike · Member ·

    So, do the emails that go out to followers count as a view? I assume that a follower viewing an email is counted as a view even if the follower does not go to the actual site. i am trying to understand a bit more about how views are counted in regard to the emails. For instance, does the follower have to open the email for it to count.
    thanks

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    timethief · Member ·

    @ryanemartinang
    The answer is no. An email is not page view stat and whether or not it’s opened is irrelevant as it does not create a page view stat.

    Likes are not page views. In fact, likes and shares are completely misleading when you are talking about page view stats. Your followers and anyone with a WordPress.com blog who is logged into WordPress.com can “like” and “share” your posts in several locations such as the Reader without ever clicking into your blog and creating a page view stat.

    You can control the length of the entry sent out on your RSS feed here > 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.

    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

    Note that setting the RSS Feed to summary does not affect the length of the post displayed on the front page or main page for posts on the blog. To create excerpts there we can split content by inserting “the more tag” http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/

    Also note that you can disable “Sharing” on the same page:
    Settings > Reading
    Add to each article in your feed:
    Categories
    Tags
    Comment count
    Sharing

    Changes may not appear until you create a new post or your news reader refreshes.

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