Stats anomalies

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  huwt · Member · Oct 15, 2012 at 6:52 pm

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  Sorry – this probably is explained somewhere but I didn’t find it.

  The stats for my site often seem wrong. Yesterday I put up a new post, got 11 likes but apparently only 5 visits.
  Maths is not my strong point but even I can tell that doesn’t add up.
  Blog url: http://hdthomas.wordpress.com/

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  timethief · Member · Oct 15, 2012 at 6:53 pm

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  Likes and shares are misleading when you are talking about page view stats. Your followers and anyone with a WordPress.com blog who is logged into WordPress.com can “like” and “share” your posts in several locations such as the Reader without ever clicking into your blog and creating a page view stat. http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/07/09/wordpress-followers-likes-and-stats/

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  huwt · Member · Oct 15, 2012 at 7:18 pm

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  But that’s daft! What then is the value of the stats?

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  timethief · Member · Oct 15, 2012 at 7:25 pm

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  I submit that including email clicks on like and share buttons in my stats would be daft. If I can get all your posts by email then why should your blog be attributed with a visitor stat when a like button or share button clicker didn’t enter the blog?

  I choose to reduce my RSS Feed to “summary” here > Settings > Reading
  For each article in a feed, show
  Full text
  Summary
  Doing that compels followers to click in and read the full post on my blogs.

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  huwt · Member · Oct 15, 2012 at 7:30 pm

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  Ah. That makes more sense. Thank you!
  (Sorry, I’m a bit of a novice at this game and easily confused.)

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  timethief · Member · Oct 15, 2012 at 7:33 pm

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  Hi again,
  Some would say, none of this, including why we blog makes any sense at all … lol :D Just learn the basics step by step and blog on!