Problem with "visitors"/"views"/"referrers" distinctions.

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  pietyonkierkegaard · Member · Jan 30, 2013 at 4:38 pm

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  One “visitor” coming from three “referrers”? Also, an increase in the number of “referrers” without any increase in the number of either “visitors” or “views”? What’s going on here?

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  zandyring · Staff · Jan 30, 2013 at 8:54 pm

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  Hi there,

  Measuring stats for website visits will always be an innacurate affair, for various reasons. For a quick primer into why this is so, have a look at these articles:

  http://www.sitepoint.com/website-statistics-reports-wrong-1/
  http://www.sitepoint.com/website-statistics-reports-wrong-2/
  http://www.sitepoint.com/website-statistics-reports-wrong-3/

  To find out more about how our stats are measured and reported, see the following help page.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/

  If you have any further questions, please let me know!