how are stats calculated?

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    pdunning · Member ·

    I am trying to make sense of the stats, and checked a series of questions from other users who seemed to be having similar problems. As I read the responses from staff, they seem to be saying that neither readers on facebook nor those receiving the posts by email are reflected in the stats. Is this right? If that’s the case, then why would my readership jump up when I post? my blog is at http://www.triptalkblog.wordpress.com

    Thanks for any clarification you can provide.

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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    timethief · Member ·

    Our stats are not real time stats. For details see here http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/ and note the views and viewers take hours to update. Also note that those who follow your blog in the Reader or by email don’t have to click into the blog unless they wish to.

    Likes and shares and reblogs and follows 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 “follow” your blog, “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.

    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 > 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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    auxclass · Member ·

    then why would my readership jump up when I post?

    That is normal, more so if you have things set to Summery as shown above. Sometimes the format in the email is not convenient to read even if the whole Post is sent in the email. Also even with full Posts the pictures are small and readers need to visit your site to see the full size picture, and sometimes people pass links on to friends.

    Be happy your stats go up when you Post –

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