Stats
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Hi, my stats are looking a bit on the crazy side. Any ideas why????????
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Exactly what does crazy mean to you?
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. Provided you are logged in when visiting, your own views are not recorded on any public blog you registered.
Our stats are page view stats. Please do not assume that everyone who clicks a like button actually reads the post on your blog because odds are they may not.
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. And, they can even comment without clicking into the blog either.
Likes and shares and comments and reblogs and follows are not page views. In fact, likes, shares, comments and reblogs are completely misleading when you are talking about page view stats.
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 in several locations such as the Reader, without ever clicking into your blog and creating a single page view stat.
Logged in 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 Dashboard > 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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Sorry, I should have been clearer. I had a massive spike on 28 July. Much higher than I have ever had (I don’t get loads of views and I had over 200) so seems too good to be true.
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Spikes happen – you have a food blog – could have been someone liked your recipes and looked at most of them or passed on a link to friends
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We can’t see your dashboard. We need information in order to give insight.
How many hits? Were they mostly to one post and if so which post (URL)?
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Was it a few people or many people? (was the people count about the same on the spike day as earlier days?)
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