I want to see how my stats compare to other users' stats.
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I want to know how my stats compare to other users. How do I find out?
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I use my stats pro actively. One thing they don’t tell me at all: how my stats compare with other users’s stats. I’ve been blogging for 5 months and have had over 2,500 views. That seems pretty good for a beginner. I’d like to know…. Not for any egotistical reasons. I just want to know how my stats compare.
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randolphthecat, it depends on what you are writing about. I think it’s hard to compare with other blogs. You should care about increasing your views over time. The best way to do this is to follow other people’s blogs and comment on them.
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Well, if you continue to create extra threads you’ll annoy people and your stats will go down.
The average personal blog lasts less than a year and gets fewer than 30 views a day on average. The average commercial blog doesn’t get many more viewers than that but dies much faster.
You can use Quantcast or Alexa to get more granular comparative stats.
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Hi! Thanks for your response.
However, I am not sure what this means: “Well, if you continue to create extra threads you’ll annoy people and your stats will go down.”
Unless you’re referring to me asking the question twice. That was not on purpose. I had trouble using the WordPress program, and I accidentally asked the question twice.
BTY: Hello fellow “raincoaster”. I’m in Seattle.
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You can use Quantcast or Alexa to get more granular comparative stats.
Sadly, Quantcast was removed form WordPress.COM blogs last January. http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2014/02/09/quantcast-you-dont-know-what-youve-got-til-its-gone/ auxclass and I are still grieving the loss.
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@randolphthecat
There is no value in oranges to apples comparisons.For example: You do not have a blogging tips blog that’s 7 years old, has over 1,000 published posts, 26,438 comments, and over 6,000 followers. So comparing your site’s stats to mine would be a senseless enterprise that would lead nowhere.
Our stats are not real time stats and take time to update. There are frequent fluctuations that most do not notice because we aren’t watching the process. For details see here http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/ and note the views and viewers take hours to update.
Our stats are page view stats. And please do not assume that everyone who clicks a follow, like, share, reblog or comment link actually reads the post on your blog because odds are they may not.
Follow, like, share, reblog or comment clicks are not page views. In fact, follows, likes, shares, comments and reblogs are completely misleading when you are talking about page view stats.
Your followers and anyone with a WordPress.com/Gravatar account who is logged into WordPress.com can “follow” your blog, “like”, “share” and “reblog” your posts and “comment” in several locations such as the Reader, without ever clicking into your blog and creating a single page view stat. Subscribers control how frequently they receive your posts (instantly, daily, weekly) and can comment without clicking into the blog.
Logged in 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 Dashboard > 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.
Bottom line: Getting caught up in the world of numbers is an addiction that many new bloggers find themselves struggling with. My advice is to focus on creating high quality original content and publishing it frequently and only check your stats once daily.
Also IMNHO you will do well to become aware of Dunbar’s number and ignore the bullshit you hear spieled about views, follows, etc. online http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/03/21/blogging-bean-counting-and-social-networking/
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Dunbar sound a bit like I think Joe Gerrard’s (not sure about the exact spelling here) – but he was a car salesman and he said that everyone had 250 people that would show up at their funeral – so he worked very hard to make sure a person was not telling the 250 people they came in contact with that he was a bad person to buy a car from
I also don’t display follower numbers etc – stats are all relative – what is one person’s great month is a very bad day or week for someone else – I did put this year’s report up – in part because the people count was over twice the town I grew up in (small town)
But stats are all relative – have fun with your blog – some people have not a lot of views, but the blog is used to keep friends updated on what is going on –
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Thanks everyone. If I knew how to close out this thread I would. I appreciate all the feedback. I have just suffered a big personal loss. My wife just passed away. I am not going to be checking in here so I want everyone know that I got plenty of info. Thank you.
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I am so sorry for your loss. You can mark this thread resolved in the very first comment above that you used to create this thread.
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randolphthecat, so terribly sorry to hear of the loss of your wife. My thoughts are with you.
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