do stats = number of unique visits to blog or are the numbers inflated by how

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  nathaliehourihan · Member · Jul 31, 2012 at 10:15 am

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  many posts/pages a visitor might click on? My blog has several pages — is it possible that my stats are inflated by the fact that people come and click on many pages/posts? If so, is there a way to know the true number of visitors?
  Blog url: http://countingzeros.wordpress.com/

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Jul 31, 2012 at 3:43 pm

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  Hi there – no, unique visits counts single visitors only, no matter how many pages they visit.

  The following are not reflected in your stats:

  • Visits to uploaded documents and files
  • Visits from browsers that do not execute javascript or load images
  • GoogleBot and other search engine spiders
  • Your own visits to your blog (for logged-in users of public blogs only)

  You can explore more about how WordPress stats work here:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/

  Just let us know if you need further assistance.

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  nathaliehourihan · Member · Sep 3, 2012 at 10:59 pm

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  thanks so much. sorry for the v delayed follow up query. I assume from your reply that my stats do NOT tell me the number of unique visitors I get to my blog, only the number of views per page I get? which could be one visitor visiting several pages? If so, is there any way I can track how many unique visitors I get each day? thanks !!

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Sep 3, 2012 at 11:01 pm

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  That is correct, we do not have a way to separately track unique visitors at this time.