Likes vs. Views

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  socialmediahackssmh · Member · Mar 6, 2018 at 3:51 pm

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  Hello
  I’ve been running my blog for a few days now.
  But I noticed that yesterday and today I have more likes than views. How can you like something without seeing it? Yesterday I had 4 likes but only 2 views and today till now I’ve got 9 likes and 5 views. There must be something wrong with that, right?
  I would be glad if you can help me with this problem! Does anyone else have this problem. Or is there e logical explanation?

  Kind regards,
  Sophie Hale

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Mar 6, 2018 at 5:01 pm

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  For details see here http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/ and here Views and Visitors https://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/#views-and-visitors and do note that both the views and viewers and views by country https://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/#views-by-country take hours to update.

  Our stats are page view stats. If I visit your blog and click into 10 posts that will be recorded as 1 visitor and 10 page views. But 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

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  timethief · Member · Mar 6, 2018 at 5:02 pm

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  Also note that WordPress.COM social networking sharing icons display the number of times people visited the actual post/page and clicked to share it. WordPress.COM does not have access to the share counts for shares made on the social networking sites themselves.