My stats don't seem to be right.

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    elainecanham · Member ·

    I’m getting more visitors than my stats record. For example, earlier today I had two visitors and two views. Then I posted. When I had 15 likes, I had 8 visitors and 15 views. How is that possible?

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    thistimethisspace · Member ·

    Hello there,
    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. Provided you are logged in when visiting, your own views are not recorded on any public blog you registered.

    Our stats are page view stats but please do not assume that everyone who clicks a like button actually reads the post on your blog and creates a page view stat because odds are they may not.

    Also note that those who follow your blog in the Reader or by email don’t have to click into the blog unless they wish to. And, they can even comment without clicking into the blog either.

    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.

    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.

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    elainecanham · Member ·

    Oh. right. Ok. Thanks for explaining all that. That’s really kind. I did see the bit about stats not being real time (but of course, about two seconds after I posted my query), but I didn’t know the other stuff. It makes everything much clearer.

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