Stats are incorrect
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My stats say that all of my views came from Romania, which I know isn’t true because at least one was from Canada when I forgot to log in before going to my blog. How do I fix this?
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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 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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Timethief, I appreciate you taking the time to post a reply, but a form response isn’t what I’m looking for. Nothing in your reply had anything to do with my actual question. Why do all my stats suddenly say they originated from the same country?
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Why do all my stats suddenly say they originated from the same country?
Yo receive Staff support like it describes in the support docs and sticky posts (big smile) one has to type modlook into the sidebar tags on a thread. :)
I already did that for you previously but I’m working and I had a customer call so I didn’t have time to tell you that before. Please subscribe to this thread so you are notified when they respond. To subscribe look in the sidebar of this thread, find the subscribe to topics link and click it.
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One seems to spend too much time on WordPress, doesn’t one? (Big humongous smile that is the biggest smile ever). :D :D :D
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I’m seeing Canadian and Romanian views for yesterday now. Is that more in line which what you would expect?
Because the stats aren’t real time, “todays” stats can be wonky. From “yesterday” back they are more accurate.
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