Re: Your 2013 in blogging – Private blogs?

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  ismailimail · Member · Dec 31, 2013 at 6:12 am

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  How is this possible: on a private (test) blog, where I am the only user, it would generate 533 views?

  This is very concerning.

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  auxclass · Member · Dec 31, 2013 at 6:51 am

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  Quite normal actually – on public blogs, logged in views do not count – However, on Private blogs, logged in users are counted, else you would never have a page view at all!!!!

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  justjennifer · Member · Dec 31, 2013 at 6:55 am

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  where I am the only user

  This is why I have tagged this for Staff input. I don’t think Ismailimail is quite so narcissistic. :)

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  ismailimail · Member · Dec 31, 2013 at 3:38 pm

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  In the stats, it is showing two separate regions where the hits coming from (only two). So how is that possible? @auxclass, what is the point of self-views on a private single-user blog?

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  auxclass · Member · Dec 31, 2013 at 4:38 pm

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  The stats switch is only Public / Private – no distinction is made for single user blogs vs. multiple user blogs – many Private blogs have many users – such as family blogs, or homeowner association blogs

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  jackiedana · Member · Dec 31, 2013 at 6:19 pm

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  I think auxclass has answered everything pretty well.

  As far as different regions go, my guess is that the other views could have come from staff members at WordPress.com.

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  ismailimail · Member · Dec 31, 2013 at 6:23 pm

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  okay, that makes sense. Yes I did have staff look at things in the background this year.

  You could probably spare time/energy by not running the stats on single user private blogs.

  Thanks.