My stats don't show clicks from facebook.
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I posted a new text today and shared it on facebook, a lot of people shared it too. It got more than 20 likes but I don’t see it in the statistics. OK, maybe not everybody who likes clicks the link. But 18 out of 20 that’s impossible according to my experience. Usually on 1 person who likes there are 3 or 4 who click the link. Today only 2 clicks are shown in the stats and 2 clicks from facebook at all. I had the same problem last weekend, when I posted 4 articles, but the stats said they weren’t read at all. During the week everything was OK, can you help me?
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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. Please do not assume that everyone who clicks a like button or a share button actually reads the post on your blog 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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During the week there are more people on Facebook than on a Saturday afternoon.
Share stats and Likes do not translate into clicks. I’ve got a post that was shared on Facebook and seen by four thousand people. It’s had a couple of hundred reads.
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