Google Analytics/Stats
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Hi. I was wondering how accurate is the stats feature?
Also, I don’t have a business account but I have set up Google Analytics for my blog, however, it doesn’t seem to be working. I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Unless you have a Business upgrade you cannot run Google Analytics. Please visit our support page: https://en.support.wordpress.com/google-analytics/
WordPress.COM and WordPress.ORG are completely separate and have different username accounts, logins, features, run different versions of some themes with the same names, and have separate support documentation and separate support forums. Read the differences here http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
See: Moving to Self-Hosted WordPress
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See here: https://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/
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 wordpress.com members can read full posts in the wordpress.COM Reader now, so there is no incentive for them to click into your site.
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Thank you!
If I purchase a theme do you know if that will include Google Analytics? Or do the 2 have nothing to do with on another?
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