Stats page error?
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When I look at the stats, it shows that no one has viewed or visited my blog. But someone recently Favorited my most recent post. How could no one have seen or visited my blog site or the most recent blog post, but someone was able to favorite the blog?
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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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Thank you for your help. From my understanding, blog page stats are different than blog post stats. Is the stat the number of times your blog is viewed from your blog page? And does it count the number of people who viewed your blog post on a referrer page? My stats say no one has viewed my blog page or post for the last week, but I did receive a post Like.
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A page view stat is recorded only when someone clicks into your site. Every time they click to open another page or post on your site that creates another page view stat. http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/
but I did receive a post Like
As I explained above a logged in wordpress/com/gravatar user can click a like button in other locations such as the Reader without clicking into the actual post on your blog and recording a page view stat.
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