Hi WordPress!
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How’s everything? Ok, some questions please.
1st) I should know by now what this means, but I have never been clear that when the stats page says that people are viewing my ‘Home page/Archives’ among the posts and pages listed there does that mean they are simply scrolling through the index of posts, maybe reading the snippet of the posts without actually clicking on a post to read the whole thing, but that once they do it’s registered as that post?
2nd) Do the stats count my own visit to the site?
3rd), When it says that I have got so and so number of readers (or subscribers), is it counting people that once subscribed and are now long gone, or current subscribers (which I would rather know even if it’s small)?
Thank you for your time. :)
Ron
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Hi Ron,
1st) I should know by now what this means, but I have never been clear that when the stats page says that people are viewing my ‘Home page/Archives’ among the posts and pages listed there does that mean they are simply scrolling through the index of posts, maybe reading the snippet of the posts without actually clicking on a post to read the whole thing, but that once they do it’s registered as that post?
Yes, this is what exactly is happening. It’s when people visit your site’s front page and might read all the content that’s in there without clicking on any posts or pages.
2nd) Do the stats count my own visit to the site?
No, they don’t as long as you’re logged in to your WordPress.com account.
3rd), When it says that I have got so and so number of readers (or subscribers), is it counting people that once subscribed and are now long gone, or current subscribers (which I would rather know even if it’s small)?
There’s no way of telling if a subscriber is active or not. So, the followers you’re seeing are people that have subscribed to your blog whether they are still following or not.
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I wanted to say thank you for taking the time to answer my question, fstat. I thought of some additional questions if you or somebody else there knows.
1) I wonder if there’s a way to add some info that so and so was last active (or logged in) to WordPress at so and so a date if a lot of time has gone by and they haven’t logged in. Maybe after a certain amount of time we can stop expecting anything from them and delete their blogs? It might be years…
2) Also, I do a lot of editing after I publish a post because things occur to me later. I know readers get a copy of my posts when I first publish them, but are they pestered by notifications of all the updates I do to them later on too?
Thank you,
Ron
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hey hello can u help me out when ur free?.. its on the issue “Can’t Insert Media to Post” https://wordpress.com/forums/topic/cant-insert-media-to-post/
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Hi @midmiocene,
Maybe after a certain amount of time we can stop expecting anything from them and delete their blogs? It might be years…
As a policy we respect site owners’ ownership of their content and, therefore, will not move or delete a site without its owner’s consent — no matter how long it has been since their last update. So we do not recycle site addresses and make them available again. More info here: https://wordpress.com/support/changing-site-address/#reuse-other-word-press-com-site-addresses
I know readers get a copy of my posts when I first publish them, but are they pestered by notifications of all the updates I do to them later on too?
Subscribers do not get a fresh email every time you update a post (if we did that, we could easily overwhelm someone’s inbox depending on how frequent the edits are) so the only email they get is the first one that is sent, which goes out as soon as you officially publish the post for the first time.
However, if you wish you can re-share content on social media, so if you need to get updated content out you can always use that option: https://wordpress.com/support/publicize/#share-your-content-again
Hope that helps. Please let us know if you have any more questions.
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Hi WordPress. I actually didn’t mean that you would delete people’s blogs themselves after a certain amount of time (I’m glad you don’t), but that after that certain amount of time you can delete their blogs from our follower’s list of (implied) current followers (or add something that says that they did once follow but are no longer active) so that we see only active blogs when we look, not people who may have been following at one time but are no longer active on WP (and perhaps haven’t been for years, or whatever) and therefore are realistically no longer following (how’s that for a run-on sentence? :) As it is now, just saying “followers” is a bit misleading.
I hope that’s understandable.
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Hi again,
Thanks for clarifying. We don’t remove followers automatically (after some period of inactivity) but if you wish you can remove followers manually. You can see how to do that here: https://wordpress.com/support/followers/#how-to-remove-a-follower
Let us know if you need further assistance or if you have any questions.
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Thank you for that link. I read it, but unless I somehow missed it, it just says how to remove followers you may not want
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, not how to know that some followers are logically no longer following you (because they haven’t been active on WP for such and such a period of time (perhaps haven’t even been for years, or whatever) and should therefore no longer be counted as followers. Current followers are not an issue for me. I don’t want to remove those.
That link brings up another question, though. How to remove those that might have intentionally stopped following you? I assume that if they do that they would disappear from our followers list though, correct?
Sorry to pester you about this.
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For example, just tiny red wording in our followers lists after, say, a year has gone by that says “Last active in 2021”. Or “Last active in 2015” or 2010 or something like that. But a year seems right.
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Hi again,
not how to know that some followers are logically no longer following you (because they haven’t been active on WP for such and such a period of time (perhaps haven’t even been for years, or whatever) and should therefore no longer be counted as followers.
We do not have any logic in place to make this kind of determination, so that is not possible at this time. You are welcome to manage your followers manually but as a matter of policy we do not remove followers on our end, it is up to the follower themselves to do that.
Also not every user would want outsiders to know when they are or are not active, which is a primary complaint of social media companies that always seem to be watching you. We respect user privacy and as a result, do not show any activity info to the public.
That link brings up another question, though. How to remove those that might have intentionally stopped following you? I assume that if they do that they would disappear from our followers list though, correct?
It is not stated in the article I linked, but yes if you remove a follower they no longer appear in your list of followers. They will also no longer see your site listed in the other sites they follow.
Thanks!
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Hello,
with regard to the original poster’s question:
“2nd) Do the stats count my own visit to the site?” and staff reply “No, they don’t as long as you’re logged in to your WordPress.com account.”
my experience is that the reply doesn’t appear accurate (or at least not in my instance). Using Firefox on a laptop, my visits to my site are counted regardless of whether I am logged in or not (I tried a couple of times to be sure). I tried to follow some older threads on how to solve the problem (e.g. turning off enhanced tracking for both WordPress and for my site), but without much luck. This seems to be an issue/question cropping up repeatedly – is their an FAQ or dedicated ‘help’ section that covers this?
Thanks for your time.
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Hi @deniscasey,
This looks like a cookies issue with Firefox. I see that you adjusted the tracking settings on Firefox, but that might not be enough.
Can you please test this behavior with a different browser (e.g., Chrome) and see if the same thing happens?
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Hello @fstat, thanks for your reply and sorry for the delay responding.
The issue seems to be resolved.
I tested it with Chrome on a different device (android) and Edge on the same laptop as I did with Firefox, and they both worked ok after I added permissions for wordpress and my website. It may be that the Firefox changes I made did not take effect immediately?
Anyway, thanks for your response.
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