How do stats work?

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  culturallife · Member · Jun 2, 2011 at 2:23 pm

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  Hey, I just started a blog and I have a question about how site stats/traffic work. On the stats page it says that WordPress does not count your own visits to your blog but I found that if I visit my blog when I’m not logged in, it counts it as a visit on the blog stats. Is this right? Thanks.

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  auxclass · Member · Jun 2, 2011 at 3:26 pm

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  It does not count your visit IF you are logged in. If you are NOT logged in it counts your visits.

  You are seeing normal operation.

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  auxclass · Member · Jun 2, 2011 at 3:29 pm

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  PS – the WordPress.COM stats counts page views.

  There are other third party non-script (plain html) stats packages that only count visitors. @timethief helps regular in the forum – see her site for more information if you want to add other stats packages.

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  culturallife · Member · Jun 2, 2011 at 3:33 pm

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  Thanks for the explanation, auxclass.

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  auxclass · Member · Jun 2, 2011 at 3:50 pm

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  You be welcome