How can I see older stats?
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On my stats page I can choose to view by day, week or month. In each of these views I can only see the last 30 entries.
How can I view stats from before this time?
Hitting the “summary tables” button shows me a little more detail (e.g. monthly totals for the last 2 years and an average/day for those months).
Finally I can click on the “busiest day” and see stats for that one day, but how can I see the daily stats for any other specific day or weekly totals for previous months?
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I accidentally posted this in Support forum, not the Stats forum.
If a moderator sees this, please move it. Thanks.
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To see the stats for any day, click the busiest day tab then change the date in the address bar of your browser and hit return.
PS There’s no Stats forum.
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Thanks for the tip.
However it’s a ridiculously long-winded way of doing things though, with no clicking-through to the next/previous day. And so unless one manually types in a date 30-odd times and looks at every day individually, one has absolutely no way of knowing which days in a month were responsible for the most traffic?
Also, this allows one to see a specific day but is there no way of seeing a week’s stats so one can compare (for example) which days of the week attract most visitors?
Such limitations seem extremely unusual given that the stats are obviously kept and available. For a programmer some kind of summary page would surely be quite straightforward to make? With WordPress being the world’s biggest blogging platform, surely someone must have done this by now?
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Thanks very much auxclass. Great link – really useful.
I note that the numbers are quite different from those on my WordPress dashboard. The general trends are the same, but the variations from day to day on the quantcast page are quite extreme whereas on my dashboard stats there’s more consistency.
Is there any way of knowing which numbers are more reliable?
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All stats are best estimate or best guess – how a stats package for instance sorts out who is a search engine robot vs/ a “real visitor” can change the stats – don’t try and figure out daily or compare things too close – stats will vary even when all the packages are on the same server as the site – watch the trend or you will go nuts.
Stats go up and stats go down – it is the trend and number over many weeks that tell the real story.
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Thanks for the explanation.
I’m mainly interested in spotting correlation between traffic resulting from a regular post each couple of days or bursts of many posts with longer gaps in between. Also whether long detailed posts bring in more than splitting them into a few shorter posts.
I agree that trying to figure things day by day would drive one mad – I’m being careful to resist over-analysing things, especially as my blog is still relatively quiet, only pulling in 40-50 views a day on average. It’s hardly enough of a sample to draw many conclusions.
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