Site stats include Followers?
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My site stats are very low and yet I know there are a bunch of folks who are now following my blog. Are these “followers” counted as visitors in the site stats or not?
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If they click into the site their page views are counted. Our stats 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.
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. Likes and shares and reblogs and follows and comments are not page views. They 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 “follow” your blog, “like”, “share”, “reblog” and comment on 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.
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