Stats incorrect
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The stats for my blog are incorrect sometimes they even drop by more than half for the same blog post throughout the week.
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Click https://wordpress.com/stats
All support docs are at https://support.wordpress.com/
Type stats into the search box and click to search https://en.support.wordpress.com/?s=stats
Top result https://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/
Click the link and locate Views and Visitors
https://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/#views-and-visitorsDo note that our stats are not real time stats, so both the views and viewers and views by country https://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/#views-by-country take hours to update.
Our stats are page view stats. If I visit your blog and click into 10 posts that will be recorded as 1 visitor and 10 page views. 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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Yesterday AM I had over 20 views of my most recent post. Later in the day I checked again and had 7. This is not the first time I have experienced this.
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Hi there,
Can you please go to My Site ->Settings and check that your site’s time zone settings matches the time zone in which you live? Stats are shown based on the site time zone, so if that’s not in sync with where you live your stats might start recording views as for a new day, which would reset the counter to zero, while it’s still the same day for you.
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