Site Stats seem to be off
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My site uses the Apostrophe 2 theme. I have noticed that the site stats seem a bit odd. For one thing, there are few visitors but many hits, the vast majority going to the Home/Archives page, not to any posts or other pages on the site. Today, it showed 1 visitor and 186 hits, all to the Home/Archives page. The stats also show no referrers, not even search engines (the site is public), so how are people even hitting the site? I have another site, and the stats don’t look like this. Any suggestions on what might be happening? Is it the theme I’m using or something else? Thanks.
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Hi there,
A theme has no effect on stats.
For one thing, there are few visitors but many hits, the vast majority going to the Home/Archives page, not to any posts or other pages on the site.
All that means is someone is going to your site directly via the homepage URL, and they’re not clicking through to individual posts or pages. This is likely someone who has bookmarked your site URL in their browser.
Today, it showed 1 visitor and 186 hits, all to the Home/Archives page
It’s very possible for one visitor to give that many views on the Home/Archives pages. That stat includes your home page, as well as every tag, category, author, search result, and date-range listing of your posts, and every new set of posts that load when scrolling down any of those pages count as a view.
So those stats would indicate someone is looking at your front page and tag pages by clicking the tags in your site’s sidebar (the latter supported by data in the “Tags and Categories” section of stats), but not clicking on and reading individual posts.
The stats also show no referrers, not even search engines (the site is public), so how are people even hitting the site?
That means either this traffic isn’t being referred from other sources, which indicates it’s someone just typing your site URL in their browser, or the sites they are coming from are not sending referrer headers allowing us to identify where the traffic is coming from, or the visitors themselves are using privacy/anti-tracking tools in their browsers to actively block us to see where they’re coming from.
None of these things are an indication that stats on your site is not working, and my views to your site just now were correctly recorded in your stats, which confirms that it is recording views as it should.
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You named everything I already thought of. Had hoped for some new insights. 13 followers and only 1 visitor generating 186 hits yesterday, some of them after I had gone to bed, so I know it’s not me. I have a feeling that my site has been “shadow banned” by WordPress. Not nice.
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Your site at https://capitalismforall.wordpress.com/ is not flagged in any way.
There are some tips to help you grow and expand your traffic audience in these guides.
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Good to know that my site has not been flagged. Still leaves the question of how the stats show 1 visitor creating 186 hits. I get likes and follows, but not reflecting on the articles being liked. That is just technically not possible. How do they like an article without hitting it? As for getting more traffic, that is outside the scope of my topic here and was never the question. Never mind, though. This forum is not a good way to get any help on something like this. I don’t want to mark this as resolved. It isn’t. I am as much in need of an answer as I was when first posting topic here. I will need to find it elsewhere. Sad.
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I get likes and follows, but not reflecting on the articles being liked. That is just technically not possible.
You have people who use the reader to follow the site. If someone is following there, or liking there, but not actually clicking through to the article, that could explain that.
Personally, I do think all those views from one visitor does feel a little more to me like it’s likely a program, rather than a person, going through the full page every day or two. Especially given the trend I’m seeing on your stats: visitors haven’t changed much, but the more articles you publish, the more views you have. Usually search engines will give us technical cues so we can tell them apart from actual humans, but is there any chance you’ve submitted your site to a service that would try to index the site for you?
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