how to read the number of people who visited

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    ghaperspective · Member ·

    I had previously thought that the view stats on the stats page was telling me how many people had stopped by the site and read my blog. But now after looking at the total view stats, and comparing them to the aggregate view counts for the all the individual posts, even those two numbers don’t exactly match, they are close. Which makes me believe that the view stats are reading the aggregate number of accesses to all of the posts together.

    In other words, if I had a blog that had 5 articles, and someone came and read all 5, it seems the view stats would give a total of 5. Is that correct?

    If it is, then is there any other way to measure just the number of people who came there to read. IOW, what I would like to have is a counter so that if a person came to my blog and read one, two, three, four, or five of my articles, it would still only record that as one user having been there. Can that be done?

    Thanks,

    Terry

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    timethief · Member ·

    @Terry

    I would like to have is a counter so that if a person came to my blog and read one, two, three, four, or five of my articles, it would still only record that as one user having been there. Can that be done?

    Not by using wordpress.com stats. I believe your questions are answered in this Stats entry in the support documentation. WordPress.COM stats is tracking “page views”. WordPress.com is not tracking track “uniques”.
    See here please > http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/

    To tarck uniques we can use free third party counters. See here for more explanation and links. > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/02/13/two-free-unique-visitor-counters-for-wordpress-com-blogs/

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