My stats haven’t moved in four hours…and I know plenty of folks have visited..

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  blogharbor · Member · Dec 17, 2008 at 9:49 pm

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  Is WordPress doing some maintanence or is there a glitchy thing going on today? Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!

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  blogharbor · Member · Dec 17, 2008 at 9:50 pm

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  How odd – no sooner did I make the above comment, my stats updated. Very, very odd…but I’m good with it.

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  blogharbor · Member · Dec 17, 2008 at 9:52 pm

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  And now the stats that updated in a major way…………returned to where they’ve been for hours. We’ve gone beyond odd.

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  teck07 · Member · Dec 17, 2008 at 10:25 pm

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  WordPress Support FAQ > Web Browser

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  gravatariscancer · Member · Dec 31, 2008 at 4:07 am

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  My stats fell off the face of the earth. Nobody seems to think anything is wrong. This has happened before. WordPress.com won’t let put your own stats widget…

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  vivianpaige · Member · Dec 31, 2008 at 4:24 am

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  WordPress.com won’t let put your own stats widget…

  Not true. There are a number of stats things that can be included on your blog. I use SiteMeter.

  And this time of the year, everyone’s stats are down.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Dec 31, 2008 at 4:28 am

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  Can I have a statcounter on my blog?

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  thesacredpath · Member · Dec 31, 2008 at 4:31 am

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  Do be aware that statcounter and sitemeter are offsite stats solutions and any interruption on the web, or any issue at the stat site can cause your stats on that service to take a dive. When I was using statcounter and sitemeter on my blog, sometimes they would track pretty closely with the wordpress stats, and other times they would be way off from the wordpress stats. On one occasion wordpress was showing normal page views compared to what I had been getting, and statcounter was low by about 80% for three days.

  Any solution that requires communication between your blog and another site on the internet is not going to always be accurate.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Dec 31, 2008 at 4:35 am

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  I’ve also seen statcounter and sitemeter be double what wordpress stats was reporting, and again, the wordpress stats were reporting normal hit rates compared to what I had been getting. At the end of the year I was using statcounter, it was off by 50% from what wordpress was reporting. Which one was right? I’d bet the wordpress stats were closer to accurate since the wordpress stats stuff is on the same servers as our blogs are. They don’t have to communicate over the internet with a third-party site that may or may not be having problems.

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  gravatariscancer · Member · Dec 31, 2008 at 5:11 am

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  I guess statcounter is better than no counter. 0 hits just doesn’t look right.

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  tellyworth · Staff · Dec 31, 2008 at 6:54 am

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  Folks,

  Please clear your browser cache before reporting stats problems.

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  ronsrealm · Member · Dec 31, 2008 at 11:11 am

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  @tellyworth

  Agreed, but WP.com stats have been clunky for a while and, as blogharbor has noted, can go down as well as up (I wasn’t entirely sure that was happening, as my changes have been small – good to have it confirmed).