How accurate are the locations of views in terms of stats?
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I’ve been contacted by someone through my website and I’m trying to determine if it’s just a scam so when I look at my stats to see who is viewing my website and where they’re viewing it from, I’m just wondering how accurate that information is. Thanks!
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Please read this support doc https://en.support.wordpress.com/stats
Visitors by city stats are not available at this time. You can install a free sitemeter http://www.sitemeter.com/ Use only the HTML code as it’s the only one that will operate on a wordpress.COM hosted blog. The Javascript code will not work.
Our stats are not real time stats and take time to update. There are frequent fluctuations that most do not notice because we aren’t watching the process. For details see here http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/ and here https://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/#views-and-visitors and note the views and viewers take hours to update.
Our stats are page view stats. If I visit your blog and read 10 posts what’s recorded is 1 visitor from Canada 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 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
You can control the length of the entry sent out on your RSS feed here Dashboard > 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.
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Thanks for your reply. In general though, the countries that come up as having viewed my site are accurate?
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Yes, generally speaking. Note the answer from Staff here https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/getting-visitors-from-european-union?replies=7#post-2292658
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