Stats not Accurate
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According to the stats blurb explanation of function I can see my stats are mostly affected by my own unlogged on clicks from other sites and my pc. I see nothing to indicate that the stats are recording other peoples views of my blog. Is there a separate section for stat feeds or some such? It is supposed to not log my own use of the site but it definitely does this. My stats are totally bogus. What to do?
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dreamyst’s blog is http://dreamyst.wordpress.com/. I see nothing unusual in stats.
dreamyst, look at the Referrers section in your stats to see how people are finding your blog. If you don’t want people to read your blog, change its privacy settings (Settings / Privacy).
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Yeah — mine seem to be inacurate too. I know for a fact that there were at least three views of my third blog today and the stats – see all only shows shows one. I witnessed one at work and two others were tweet critiques – one quoted text I wrote, the other specifically referred to content.
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I changed my home page on my computer to the home page of WordPress instead of my blog page since that is the only way to have accurate stats on this site. I want people to find my blog so privacy has no issue in this problem for me. Where did you get the idea that privacy had anything to do with my stats issue??? huh
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Stats are never 100% accurate. WordPress has little chance to recognise you when you’re not logged in, well, there are methods to do this when you’re always using the same computer, but none you would really want them to use.
So some clicks won’t get registerd, for technical reasons I don’t know. Other “visits” may be registered as such although they are really just some search engine spider or a spambot in search of targets. I don’t even know if wordpress is filtering such traffic out, and even if it does try this won’t be 100% accurate. Also, the stats do not register all those that read your blog via their feed reader or bloglines and such.For my part I don’t think it is that important if 1 person or 2 read my blog today. The stats are imho only a rough measure to tell you if your blog is read at all, and what is going on with it. If the stats rise or fall sharply I know something’s going on, but beyond that I don’t worry.
A probably better measure of success is weather you get meaningful comments by more or less regular readers or not. If you don’t then you need to promote your blog better instead of worrying about the accuracy of your stats.
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