Stats? More likes / follows than all time views?
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I reviewed your area in the support documentation for Traffic > Stats and did not find an appropriate answer. Why are the stats shown so off? I have more follows and likes to posts than it shows all time views. I’ve had multiple days as of late that I received multiple follows / likes, and yet for that day, my visits state 0.
Going from what is said in the support documentation, this must mean the visits came from users who have Javascript disabled?
I really do not think that is the case.
It’s really not that big of a deal, as I just started my blog a few days ago and have only written a few posts, however, I was considering upgrading to (at the very least) having my WP.com blog mapped to a custom domain name I already own, this stat thing has just totally turned me off.
Metrics are key. If I have more likes / follows than all time views, who knows how many views I really have!
So therein lies the problem. I use WordPress on many of my own websites, and decided to come give WP.com a try, and I have been very pleased, except for this one glaring issue.
Also, since WP.com doesn’t work with Google Analytics as far as I can tell, the metrics reporting has to be spot on, otherwise, it’s pointless to use WP.com if I’m taking shots in the dark and can’t identify what is being read and what is not.
Hopeful,
Robert Whitis
PS I though I was going to actually get to contact WP.com directly, but I see now, after composing my message, that’s it’s going to post to the community.
Why did I waste my time trying WP.com? /facepalm
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Part of the problem is that today you can follow, like, read content, reblog and now even comment on, all from the wordpress.com reader (as in here: http://wordpress.com/ ). Unfortunately for blog owners, this doesn’t give us a view when someone does that, unless they click into the blog. So you can get multiple likes from the wordpress.com reader, without getting a view.
Unfortunately there isn’t a whole lot you can do to counter this…
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Similar situation (bad stats) here. Just checked the stat change on my blog and, since the last check, the number of visits were twice as high as the number of views – an impossibility in the real world.
WP stats are to be taken with a large grain of salt it seems.
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This really is a shame. Using WP.com allows you access to a huge community of people to get your content actually read by a few people – it gives you the chance of being discovered without landing a site on page 1 of a popular search engine or working to generate traffic yourself.
However, if you can’t accurately gauge traffic, then that traffic really loses a lot of value. Sure, if someone interacts with you by following your blog, that’s wonderful, or even leaving a legitimate comment or liking your post.
I’m not sure what platform the stats system is running on, or if it’s custom built, but truly, Google Analytics blows away this reporting system as far as I’m concerned, and I don’t see the point in short changing all of the WP.com blog authors on this hugely key component.
Perhaps I’m wrong in encouraging a move to GA, but something needs to be done to remedy this.
If someone is reading my blog via a RSS feed reader, I’d like to know that statistic, too. If it turns out that most of my traffic is coming through feed readers (even for the initial act of finding my blog via an article title that catches their interest), that changes how I would market my blog in the future. From the numbers I’m seeing, over 50% of the people (closer to 75%) are using feed readers.
Metrics which operate on 25%-50% of actual data = useless, sorry.
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