Stats question: "homepage" and "archives"

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  squidinkling · Member · Feb 9, 2014 at 4:02 pm

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  Hello,

  I’m trying to make sense of my stats, and am confused over the difference between views for “Home page” and views for “Home page / Archives.”

  Thanks very much for any advice

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  squidinkling · Member · Feb 11, 2014 at 4:13 pm

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  Correction: I’m sorry , maybe I was not clear. I’m wondering why there are separate stats for “Home” and “Home Page /Archives”. Shouldn’t Home and Homepage be the same?
  thanks,

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  auxclass · Member · Mar 13, 2014 at 1:40 am

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  @omeglasohbet – http://ginzaline.com/ IS a WordPress.COM blog so the question is proper to ask here –

  please provide accurate answers or no answers

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  squidinkling · Member · Mar 13, 2014 at 2:07 am

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  Thank you, auxclass.

  I’m still curious about the difference between “Home” and “Home page/Archives” in the Stats, because I often see different numbers for each and I’m not sure what people are actually looking at.

  Any answers appreciated.

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  auxclass · Member · Mar 13, 2014 at 2:20 am

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  I am not sure – I just looked at my stats for the last 3+ years and only see

  Home page / Archives

  “Archives” is a fancy term for anything that is not on the front page.

  Just a technical note about Pages & Posts – they don’t really exist! They are generated by calls to a Database and the only Pages & Posts that exist are the ones that you see on your browser

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  squidinkling · Member · Mar 13, 2014 at 2:24 am

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  That’s interesting. On my Stats page under “Title” i often see “Home” with numbers then under that, “Home page / Archives”, with other numbers, then other posts under that.
  Thanks for the tech advice too.

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  auxclass · Member · Mar 13, 2014 at 2:26 am

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  you are welcome – maybe someone else will pitch in with more help