statistics – and yes I know

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  peterbowes · Member · May 8, 2011 at 7:23 am

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  Forgive the question, but I must.

  If I have (say) ten posts up and the one and only visitor I get in 24 hours visits the home page once and then clicks through to every post on the site once – How does WordPress calculate the numbers on that day?

  many thanks

  pete

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  crashcourseinself · Member · May 8, 2011 at 8:04 am

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  I believe it’s counted just once although the length of visit is recorded.

  A colleague directed me to statcounter which I am using as a plugin on top of the WordPress stats. It’s free and seems to provide more data. (If WP provides as much as statcounter, I haven’t figured it out yet.) Recommend it.

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  thesacredpath · Member · May 8, 2011 at 8:05 am

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  Visit to Home page + visit to 10 posts = 11. WordPress is counting page views.

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  peterbowes · Member · May 8, 2011 at 8:50 am

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  ta sp, now the party os drinking beer rather than champagne

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  thesacredpath · Member · May 8, 2011 at 8:53 am

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  I’m drinking Cabernet Sauvignon. :-)

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  limberation · Member · May 8, 2011 at 8:58 am

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  You could at least share, TSP. Don’t suppose you have a cab merlot handy?

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  peterbowes · Member · May 8, 2011 at 10:42 am

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  I thought I had dozens, now I have a few

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  limberation · Member · May 8, 2011 at 10:56 am

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  Dozens of cab merlot? OK – you can share! :)

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  ahundredthingstodo · Member · May 8, 2011 at 5:31 pm

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  “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”- Mark Twain “
  enough said.