stats & snow
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Over the last two hours (new day) my stats are very high, but with very few referrers.It is very uncharacteristic of my stats. I mean over 170 page views, with only a dozen referrers. I do’t usually get that many stats within a few hours either.
Yesterday, I turned on the “snow” and it was posted on Facebook, so I wondered if the spike had to do with the snow? But usually Facebook, twitter show up in the stats. Can anyone explain this?. Or do you think the snow is making my stats go haywire?
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The same thing is happening on my blog, where it isn’t snowing.
Anyway, I’m glad you posted about this because I was wondering too.
PS You have a terrific blog!
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it is very odd, the numbers keep increasing steadily, almost automatically..now it’s over 200, but referrers have not gone up
Not that I know anything about this, but my guess is it’s either an error or some kind of cellphone or twitter thing. I do know that when I use email marketing software at my job and we look at the stats, if the contact opened the email on their cellphone or webmail, it does not show on our stats. Perhaps it’s something like that.
PS: I like your blog, too. I have also been to “writers camp”
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Have you any how-many-users-online widget e.g whos.amung.us on your sidebar? You can see online visitors for some specific amount of time if so. My best guess is some visitors on your blog browse over your posts abruptly without having necessarily came from many referrer?
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no, I don’t have that widget. where do you get it?
But I may have figured it out. In addition to turning on the snow yesterday, I did a photo post about snow with a link to Nick’s “A Little Snow for the Holidays” announcing the feature on the WordPress blog. This morning I see there’s a pingback from my blog and several other blogs too. (Interesing to see what othes have done with their snow!) My guess is if people click on a pingback, it may not show up on one’s stats.. At least it’s not showing up for me.
Also interesting….my friend who has a Sprint Blackberry says the snow is not showing up on her phone!
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If you check your stats here
http://www.quantcast.com/amusingthezillion.wordpress.com
you can see that you have very few people visiting you, but they do view a heck of a lot of pages. Someone must love your blog very much. -
that’s a good site to know about. thank you, husdal. it’s true, my blog is everything about a particular place, and so it would not attract a wide audience, but devotees who, like me, love the place and hope to preserve it. But I also get quite a lot of referrers from people doing Google searches on the subject and when another blog links to my post.
I have a question about Quantcast: Does it say I get 6-9 people a day? If so, I don’t think it’s accurate because I have an average of about 200 page views a day
My blog is mapped to the url http://www.amusingthezillion.com. If I type that into Quantcast, it says, “Site not quantified” and asks me to register to get info. So would the stats be different (perhaps higher?) for the primary url or is it one and the same? -
I looked more carefully at the Quantcast charts and see the page views are correct–223 to 413 per day. But it appears to say only 3 to 6 people looked at the blog! If happen to know that info is definitely wrong. Where do they get that?
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Does it say I get 6-9 people a day? If so, I don’t think it’s accurate because I have an average of about 200 page views a day
You can check your pageviews and pageviews per person by selecting the dropdown menu under where it says “Daily Traffic”. It does show an average of 223 pageviews, so I would consider it correct. However, unlike wordpress.com Quantcast also counts your own visits.
My blog is mapped to the url http://www.amusingthezillion.com. If I type that into Quantcast, it says, “Site not quantified”
I discovered about a year ago that wordpress.com uses Quantcast, which is why you need to use the wordpress URL not your domain URL. That said, sometimes domain-mapped wordpress.com blogs show up fine in Quantcast with the domain, sometimes not. I assume it may be because your blog/domain is just two months old. There would be no difference between Quantcast stats with or without the domain, since the Quantcast script is part of the sourcecode for your blog (it’s a script that is inserted by wordpress.com, similar to whatever they use to collect the stats data)
If you have a self-hosted wordpress.ORG blog you can “quantify” your blog yourself to show up in Quantcast. On my self-hosted blog I use it for pricing my sponsor ads.
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Should have refreshed before posting this and I would have seen that you already found the answer.
As far as I am able to tell for my own blog, the info is correct. Almost. Because my own stats are countde in a different time zone than Quantcast uses (thus a different 24.hour period) my exact daily views will differ from Quantcast, but the overall numbers are still pretty much the same.
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husdal, thanks for clarifying the info on Quantcast and for letting me know about the page in the first place.I had no idea so called stats about my blog were available for all to see without subscribing to a service.
I’mnot going to dispute the page views, although since it counts my views it is off as well. But I am going to contact them to dispute and ask them to take down their ridiculously wrong stats on the number of visitors to my blog.
They are saying I have only 3-9 people in total looking at my blog! If that were true, after blogging since April, I would just quit. But In fact I have many more subscribers than that who view on Google reader, netvibes, Bloglines etc which I can see on my stats.I personally know many people who have some association with the area and visit my blog. Also, my wordpress stats show a variety of visitors from many very different Google searches as well as many links from websites, blogs, message boards, Facebook etcetera.
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I kind of think something might be wrong. My stats are usually 30 – 50 aday… Today… the number is over 500 and climbing. Very strange. My referrals are few and do not reflect the numbers.
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