How are followers calculated in "Stats"?
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Hi,
How are follower viewings calculated in “Stats”? Do they get daily digests of new posts from the blog?
Thanks!
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Not every follower chooses to get daily digests from your blog and even if they do get them and read them in the Reader, that does not create a page view stat. Unless they actually click into the blog no page view stat is created.
Our stats are not real time stats. For details see here http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/ Note the views and viewers take hours to update. Moreover, those who follow your blog in the Reader or by email don’t have to click into the blog unless they wish to.
Be aware that likes and shares and reblogs are not page views. In fact, likes, shares and reblogs 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”, “share” and “reblog” your posts in several locations such as the Reader, without ever clicking into your blog and creating a single 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. -
WordPress.com subscribers, including all followers from social media sites if you use the Publicize app are found here
http://wordpress.com/my-stats/?blog_subscribersEmail followers are found here http://wordpress.com/my-stats/?blog_subscribers&type=email
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