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  youarenotsupposedtoknow · Member · Nov 3, 2017 at 2:53 pm

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  Hi,

  I’m having an issue with my blog. Today I used a short URL to introduce my site to another site, there according to google analytics I see there are 30 + people have clicked the short URL from United Kingdom and few other countries, however, I don’t see these visitors according to your records.

  May I know the reason behind it?

  Thanks!
  Dan

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  simranvijwani · Staff · Nov 3, 2017 at 4:39 pm

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  Hi there!

  Typically a view is reported within five minutes, while it can take up to two hours for new visitors to show up in your stats.
  Also note that both the views and viewers and views by country take hours to update.

  To read more about Stats please check out http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats

  For Views and Visitors, https://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/#views-and-visitors

  Thanks!

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  timethief · Member · Nov 3, 2017 at 4:40 pm

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  Does reading the stats Views and Visitors support doc at https://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/#views-and-visitors help?

  Our stats are page view stats. https://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/ If I visit your blog and click into 10 posts that will be recorded as 1 visitor and 10 page views. But please do not assume that everyone who clicks a follow, like, share, reblog or comment link actually reads the post on your blog because odds are they may not.

  Follow, like, share, reblog or comment clicks are not page views. In fact, follows, likes, shares, comments and reblogs are completely misleading when you are talking about page view stats. That is because your followers and anyone with a WordPress.com/Gravatar account who is logged into WordPress.com can “follow” your blog, “like”, “share” and “reblog” your posts and “comment” in several locations such as the Reader, without ever clicking into your blog and creating a single page view stat. Subscribers control how frequently they receive your posts (instantly, daily, weekly) and can comment without clicking into the blog.

  Logged in wordpress.com members can read full posts in the wordpress.COM Reader now, so there is no incentive for them to click into your site.

  WordPress.COM social networking sharing icons display the number of times people visited the actual post/page and clicked to share it. WordPress.COM does not have access to the share counts for shares made on the social networking sites themselves.