Stats never add up
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Hmmmmm… Not that my lowly blog gets much traffic, but whenever I check the stats, the graph might say 20 the page views 15. They never add up. What’s the deal? (Yeah, I understand the difference between referrals and page views so no worries about explaining that to me.)
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Most likely the reason is someone going to your site (which registers in the graph) but not going to any other pages. I’ve had times when I have had 80 showing in the graph, but only 20 when I add up the numbers under “post views”. You will only get a post view if they click on a more tag or on the post title.
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That explains one type of incongruity, but it doesn’t reconcile of it. I might get say 3 referrals from places that I know link to specific page. Those hits register as 3 pageviews of the page in question but the graph still might show 6 or whatever.
Not that this is all that important beyond my own vanity and curiosity, but I do like figuring out how things work. And when there is some theoretical bugaboo, I just get preoccupied.
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The other three could be people who have your site bookmarked in their browser in which case, there won’t be a referral logged since it isn’t a referral. It will only show referrals when someone comes to your site via a link on another website.
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And the final dumb question, I swear it: Does a hit via a bookmark to the main page register as a page view of just a hit on the graph?
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It did when I first checked into the topic. But there isn’t a distinct to my last question about the distinction between hitting the main page and a page view and the graph.
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It’s my understanding that every time a page is called to load it’s recorded as a page view hit. I will try and find the thread in the forum searchbox that relates to this for you. But what I believe is that it’s only one hit on your front page unless the visitor also clicks the titles of the articles there. In that case, every time the visitor clicks a post tile a page loads and a page view hit is recorded.
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