Page views and statistics
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Here is something that I find rather odd. In the past view hours one single post (http://anotherbagmoretravel.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/the-greek-islands-mykonos-and-shirley-valentine/) has recorded 123 page views. This is wonderful and I would like to think that they are genuine hits but despite all of these views there is not one single, comment or rating among them which makes me wonder if they are really genuine? I would have expected at least one visitor to have left some sort of footprint. They also all occurred within a very short space of time – 1 hour or so.
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I would have expected at least one visitor to have left some sort of footprint.
Not really – had someone in Finland post a link to my Boating Etiquette article this spring – about 66 page views in 2 hours for that, ZERO comments, I have had the same thing happen on several times, links posted into a forum or email list server with no comments and lots of page views – Oh you ask – how do I know what happened – well in a couple of cases a friend was subscribed to the email list server and sent the email on to me, in the case of Finland, I woke in the middle of the night and looked at the stats and saw the many page views before my normal traffic day starts (North America – day time & early evening)
Then there is the part where I get on average one comment per 3,000 to 4,000 page views. some sites are different, a friends site gets maybe one comment (or a bit more) per 100 page views, but their site is a “we are retired and traveling & keeping friends updated” and friends leave holiday & birthday wishes – so probably legit
then there are your “friends” that just want to mess with you and click on the same Post 75 times knowing it will drive you bat guano nuts just to see if you will post in the forum here (yes it does happen)
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I have a related question. I have subscribers leaving comments but my page view numbers aren’t changing. Do I not get additional “views” when posts are read in an email? If not, is there a way to change the email delivery settings so the whole post doesn’t show, so they have to click to the blog?
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@apetcher waiting 8 hours for an answer is pretty low on most support forums. Since these forums are mostly peer-to-peer, keep in mind that on the weekend or during holidays, when both community members and Staff frequent the forums less, getting an answer may take longer. And if no one has an answer to give, you may wait even longer. Regardless, auxclass gave you a very credible answer.
Besides the official Support doc on Getting Help in the Forums, http://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-help-in-the-forums/ which I have already pointed you to, perhaps you’d like to read a small piece I wrote about asking for help in the forums and what you can expect: http://wpcommaven.wordpress.com/2013/01/25/looking-for-help/
Best wishes.
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Note also that an old post can become suddenly popular again if when the same subject arises in the news. I published a post long ago on a celebrity in a blog I no longer own. That celebrity was in the news a couple of years later when selling a collector car, which had nothing whatsoever to do with what I blogged about, but my post got a huge number of hits.
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Do I not get additional “views” when posts are read in an email? If not, is there a way to change the email delivery settings so the whole post doesn’t show, so they have to click to the blog?
Likes and shares and reblogs are not page views. In fact, likes, shares and reblogs are completely 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”, “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. 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.
Note that setting the RSS Feed to summary does not affect the length of the post displayed on the front page or main page for posts on the blog. To create excerpts there we can split content by inserting “the more tag” http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/
Also note that you can disable “Sharing” on the same page:
Settings > Reading
Add to each article in your feed:
Categories
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Comment count
Sharing
Changes may not appear until you create a new post or your news reader refreshes. -
Here is a real answer:
I have been a professional blogger for six years, and my blogs are currently averaging one comment per 900 views, one like per 400.
I am happy to provide 24/7 support, even over the Holidays, at my regular consulting rate of $200 per hour. That includes standby time.
If you are going to ask for free help, you are going to have to take what you can get, which, in these forums, is pretty damn good.
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Thanks for the ‘real’ answer. I wasn’t really asking for help, I was making an observation about an unexplained spike in hits on a specific post that seemed unnatural and was looking for an explanation. Let me explain, this post received almost 150 hits in one hour but there was no evidence that anybody had actually been there and I find that odd. To add to the mystery most of these hits appeared to come from the UK, which isn’t a surprise, but they came in the middle of the night when most people in the UK are in bed. The hits stopped as abruptly as they started. My question was – ‘is this some form of spam?’
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