Subscription stats?

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  learningtobemrsc · Member · Sep 2, 2015 at 5:31 pm

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  Hi, I can see in my stats how many wordpress followers I have, but I can’t see how many readers have hit the email-subscription button. Any help would be gratefully received!

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

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  timethief · Member · Sep 2, 2015 at 8:49 pm

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  It’s possible that you do not have any email only followers as the wordpress.com followers may choose to follow you blog in the Reader, rather than by email.

  WordPress.COM followers including publicize are here https://wordpress.com/my-stats/?blog_subscribers

  Email only subscribers are here https://wordpress.com/my-stats/?blog_subscribers&type=email

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  timethief · Member · Sep 2, 2015 at 8:51 pm

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  Note > Publicize If subscriber are already receiving your updates on social networks via Publicize then it would not make any sense for them to subscribe by email as well.

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  timethief · Member · Sep 2, 2015 at 8:53 pm

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  Additional information:

  The social network shares that are initiated from the social networking sites themselves, as opposed to those that take place when visitors click sharing icons on the bottom of your blog posts, are not made available to wordpress.COM, and do not display on the sharing icons there.

  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 here https://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/#views-and-visitors 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.