pages viewing question

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  theradiocrytic · Member · Nov 25, 2010 at 8:17 pm

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  I have a static front page on my blog called welcome. Sometimes in the stats it will say that the welcome page has gotten 2 views and the home page has gotten 3 views, just for example. Why are these numbers different if the page is the same? I can understand why it would be different all time as I haven’t always had the static homepage, but it said that welcome had 2 views and the home page had one view yesterday I think it was. Why is it coming up like this?

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  airodyssey · Member · Nov 26, 2010 at 3:59 am

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  Hi. I did some tests and this is what I found.

  If a visitor lands on your homepage from outside your blog (for example, if they had your blog on their favorites), it is registered as “Welcome” (or whatever you called your home page)

  If a visitor lands on your homepage from inside your blog (for example, they are in “About” and they click on “Home”) it is registered as “Home page”

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  raincoaster · Member · Nov 26, 2010 at 9:42 am

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  Ah, smart! Thanks for figuring this out.

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  theradiocrytic · Member · Nov 26, 2010 at 8:39 pm

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  Cool! How did you figure that out?

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  airodyssey · Member · Nov 26, 2010 at 10:49 pm

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  I have a spare private blog for testing purposes. I made it temporarily visible and opened it on Internet Explorer (where I’m not logged into WordPress.com), while my Dashboard stats page was opened on Mozilla Firefox.

  The rest is easy to imagine: I kept entering and leaving the website, reloading the stats page each time to see whether Welcome or Home page had gone up. It took about 10 minutes until I realized the recurrence I explained earlier… :-P