Stats
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Hello, three questions for you:
1. How is it possible that I have one visitor today and no views?
2. Why do I have one visitor displayed on the mobile app and 0 on desktop?
3. Why was my best day 302, and the number then decreased to 292? The day was in march, so not sure how views decreased after the fact?The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Our stats are not real time stats and take time to update. There are frequent fluctuations that most do not notice because we aren’t watching the process. For details see here http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/ and here https://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/#views-and-visitors and note the views and viewers take hours to update.
Our stats are page view stats. 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.
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 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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3. Why was my best day 302, and the number then decreased to 292? The day was in march, so not sure how views decreased after the fact?
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I don’t see anything that would indicate your “best day” view count decreased. Do you happen to know which day in particular had 302 views?
In general, when it comes to stats, they are perhaps most useful when you’re interpreting them in terms of trends. Absolute counts of views, and so on, are often interesting, but by focusing on trends, you’ll be able to see what kind of progress you’re making in your goal of attracting more views and readers to your site.
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