Suspicious traffic spike – can I trust WP stats?
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Something very weird happened on my blog last night and it still seems to continue. One post, written in August, suddenly gets a lot of traffic, and I mean A LOT! During the past 20 hours or so I have had over 1100 unique visitors and this one post has been shared on FB over 900 times based on WP stats.
This would be fantastic if it’s true, but I’m more than suspicious as normally I have less than 2000 unique visitors PER MONTH. Has anyone else experienced anything like this, or is there a way to find out the original source of FB shares (I mean, is there any way of finding out how this all got started, or is this a hack or something)?
What do you think, can I trust the stats? It seems too good to be true, and you know what they say; if it sounds like it’s too good to be true, it most probably is! :)
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I had a similar thing happen with a blog that was a couple weeks old, about six days ago. It spiked up to 2000 views in one day, then the next was 400-500, and now has steadily been in the 20 range each day since. I don’t know what caused that. It does sound suspicious lol.
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Actually, I just found out that this really was a real thing. I just got extremely lucky! I did some detective work and found out how the post started spreading. The post was about a town in Finland that I visited this summer and I loved it. Now a big company based on this town has found the post, shared it, and after that other companies and people from this town started sharing it. Amazing! :)
So it seems like I can still trust WP stats, but I would still be curious to know if there is an option on stats page where you could also see statistics for sharing, e.g. what is the post that has been shared the most , when and where. At least I haven’t found this information on WP statistics.
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Oh wow that is interesting and cool! I too would like to know where my views come from exactly, track that information. You might be able to do so if you have a self-hosted website with Google Analytics or some other analytics tools. I don’t personally though, and haven’t tried it myself.
I had come to the conclusion that my views were real too and tracked some of the pinterest shares, but I don’t know how to track the facebook ones. How did you do that?
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