Suggestion: predict stats for "this" day, month, etc,
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It would be nice if the stats page predicted the total views and visitors for the current period.
For instance, if I’m looking at the year view, “this” year (2015 currently), it would be nice to see a dotted outline that indicates (visits to date / days so far in year) * 365.
That way I could estimate at a glance how my statistics are stacking up. This is particularly useful for week and months.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi there,
I’m not into predictions. I want reality only but I tagged this thread for Staff to take notice of feedback. Please subscribe to it so you are notified when they respond. To subscribe look in the sidebar of this thread, find the subscribe to topics link and click it.Note that when you go to your Stats page and click on the Years tab at the top and you will see your total views there.
Here’s the direct link here:
https://wordpress.com/stats/year/matter2energy.wordpress.com/Below is some associated information you may find useful.
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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Sitemeter will give predictions on past traffic – they are wildly inaccurate – you can install the plain html version of Sitemeter on a site here
Projected traffic would be useless and annoying for my site and wildly inaccurate since my traffic is very seasonal (boating) – so at the mid year the stats monkeys would show a very big estimated yearly number with a wild gain from month to month – – only to see my year end stats about 1/3 the predictions
I do however look at the monthly stats from on year to the next – I then add the proper percentage to the year end to give me yet another very inaccurate number – so mostly I skip the future and just try to be a bit better than last year – I do plot monthly stats for each year so I can see the gain or loss from past years
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