My visitor tracker stopped working

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  neuroticocomic · Member · Jun 20, 2014 at 1:33 am

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  Howdy Folks,

  My visitor tracker/statistics has not worked for the last 2 days. It is showing 0 for today, and I have had 3 likes, and a person commented. I know the people are coming, but there is no record of it. How do I fix this?

  Thanks,

  Steven

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

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  timethief · Member · Jun 20, 2014 at 8:36 pm

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  Hi there,
  Our stats are page view stats. They 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. http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/

  Please do not assume that everyone who clicks a like 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 > 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.