Linkedin or wordpress wrong stats?

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    experienceage · Member ·

    Hello everyone,

    I’ve linked my blog to my linkedin profile. Linkedin features a new functionality that shows the number visualizations of your posts. In fact, I have 96 visualisations for a post but the number doesn’t match with the figures provided by wordpress…
    does anyone know why?

    Thanks for the support!
    EC

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

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    timethief · Member ·

    Yes. Unless those people who view at Linkedin choose to actually click into your blog there will be no page stat created on the blog.

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    timethief · Member ·

    Also please do not assume that everyone who clicks a like button actually reads the post on your blog because odds are they may not. Those who follow your blog in the Reader or by email don’t have to click into the blog unless they wish to.

    Likes and shares and comments and reblogs and follows are not page views. In fact, 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 in several locations such as the Reader, without ever clicking into your blog and creating a single page view stat.

    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 > 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.

    Our stats are not real time stats. For details see here http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/ and note the views and viewers take hours to update.

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    experienceage · Member ·

    Thanks for the quick answer!!!
    But few things are still no clear:
    Linkedin actually says that those who viewed my updates clicked on my post, but shouldn’t it generate a view?
    How can be that visitors using a mobile don’t create a page view?

    Thanks a lot for your feedback!
    EC

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    jackiedana · Member ·

    There may well be a discrepancy between what WordPress.com counts in your stats and what another website like LinkedIn counts, and that is both to be expected and pretty much impossible to quantify. A discrepancy can happen for many reasons, including the fact that the stats counts are likely happening at different times and the stats are almost certainly counting different things.

    For what we count as a page view, please see this forums post:
    https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/off-site-activity-and-stats?replies=11

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    experienceage · Member ·

    Thanks jackiedana for your useful insights!
    EC

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    jackiedana · Member ·

    You’re welcome!

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