How do you make the hit counter ignore my own visits?
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In order to give an accurate account of site visits, I want it only to record visits of other people…I know how to do this with thirdparty hit counters like SiteMeter.com, but it’d be nice for the built int sidebar widget hit counter to be able to ignore visits…how?
Thanks as always.
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I wouldn’t worry about it, it’s not going to be that big of a deviation from your site stats. WordPress.com can tell if it’s you or not based on if you are logged in. An external site tool won’t be able to do that.
One way to reduce the hits is to use https://wordpress.com/gadget.php?action=stats as your interface adding posts.
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See, what I’m looking for is this. On services like SiteMeter.com, you can specifically designate your IP as completely ignored. So any computer in the house that visits the site won’t be tracked, its very useful. Is there anything like that inherent to the WordPress.com code, or should I just use an external counter?
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Stay signed in all the time. Of course, this means anybody in your house will be able to post to your blog, but it’s the one way I know of. Are there lots of other people at your place that read your blog on your own computer?
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Actually I don’t know about that. I know the Stats graph doesn’t count views if you’re the site owner and are logged in. Don’t remember anything about the counter widget.
I’ll send in a Feedback and see if I can get an answer on this one.
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The stats counter ignores visits from logged-in admins. If you log out, your visits count.
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