More followers than page views?

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  bumblepuppies · Member · May 31, 2013 at 9:28 pm

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  I don’t have a problem with my blog. It’s more an item of curiosity.

  I published my first post yesterday and I already have 5 people following my blog (6 if you include me); however, my blog has only been viewed a total of 4 times. How is this possible?

  (BTW, if any of my followers are reading this, thank you very much!)

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  timethief · Member · May 31, 2013 at 9:34 pm

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  Our stats are not real time stats. The data is cached and takes hours to update. See here for more on stats > http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/

  Note that email subscribers and don’t have to click into the blog to read you posts if your provide a full post rather than setting your RSS feed here > Settings > Reading to “summary”.

  Also note that likes are not page views. In fact, likes and shares are misleading when you are talking about page view stats. Your followers and anyone with a WordPress.com blog who is logged into WordPress.com can “like” and “share” your posts in several locations such as the Reader without ever clicking into your blog and creating a page view stat.