Inconsistent Stats
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Sometimes when I look at my stats they seem to go up and down throughout the day. It mainly seems to affect the number of Clicks – today for example I’ve had a lot of visitors. One link says it got 43 clicks, then when I checked it says just 10.
Anyone else experience this an is there an explanation for it?
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I’ve noticed the same type of thing today, but with referrers. I have a referrer (one of the tag pages) that’s been jumping between 3 and 1 views. I suspect it has to do with data propagation between different servers in the wordpress.com datacenters.
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Yeah, Im getting it with referrers too. The only thing seems consistent is the page views.
You could be right about the data propagation. I’ve had it happen before and it always seems to settle down the day after.
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This same phenomenon has been happening to me daily since about the first of the year. It’s really more of an annoyance than anything. I finally put in a request to WP support yesterday since I can’t seem to find the cause. I haven’t heard back yet which is okay since it’s not really a problem. If I hear anything, I’ll let you know what’s going on. I also suspect is has to do with data propagation amongst the various WP servers.
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Cheers lizwired.
Annoying thing is that yesterday’s stats seems to have settled on the much lower set of figures for me today.
I don’t know what to believe.
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@jimmyhillsbeard: My stats for Today and Yesterday continuously fluxuate all throughout the day. The higher stats (which I consider the accurate ones) don’t seem to settle in at the permanent number until two days after they’ve been recorded.
@raincoaster (who is still my hero): It’s hard to tell if any of the stats are dropping off or if it’s simply data propagation. My stats that revolve seem to gain and lose 100+ views at any given time. Who knows?
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liz, you don’t by chance have your blog embedded in an iframe anywhere off WP.com, do you? Just a theory, something I was thinking about last night.
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raincoaster, if I do it’s news to me. I honestly no nothing of iframes (shame on the girl-geek) to tell the truth. Would it be possible that someone else has done something of that sort with my blog?
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Maybe. But it’s a total longshot (and blog scrapers wouldn’t bother, they’d just subscribe to your feed and take the contents). What I was thinking was, if someone put it in an iframe that didn’t show sidebars and footer, Angela wouldn’t be loading on those views. But then, it would only mean you were getting views that didn’t show up on the stats; it wouldn’t mean they’d come and go.
I think staff needs to be alerted to this. My stats are going a bit wonky, too, although they’re only going up or down by three. I’ll report it tomorrow if I remember.
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It’s certainly possible. :-)
However, I know my blog is new enough and doesn’t get enough traffic to warrant anyone trying to scrape it that way, and the referrers from yesterday are still flipping back and forth between two distinct sets of numbers.
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Yes! It’s happening to me, too, with the number next to Referrers. Very odd. They’re big jumps up and down, too. I’ll have had 30 visits from a Referrer one minute. If I refresh, the number plummets to 10. Refresh again later and it’s bounces back up. Glad to know I’m not the only one.
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We think we’ve tracked this down to a MySQL bug. Hopefully the situation will improve soon.
Stats are accurate in the long term. The fluctuating stats problem is caused sync problems between the stats database servers – each time you view a page in your dashboard it can be handled by a different stats server, which might be more or less up to date with the others.
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Thanks for the update!
Based on the behavior, I was guessing at a database issue, but don’t know how you’re handling the cross-server data propagation. :-)
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