Total page views is much higher than sum of individual page views
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Jetpack stats are showing 10,077 views on my site this month, which sounds way too high, as does the average of 166 views per visitor. Meanwhile the most viewed pages are showing view numbers that add up to less than 1000. What could cause the stats to show such an inconsistency?
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Hi,
I understand how those numbers can seem confusing — let’s look into what might be happening.
Jetpack’s total views include all page loads across your site (homepage, archives, posts, and pages), while the “Most Viewed” section only lists the top individual URLs, so the totals there may not add up to the overall number. Homepage views, in particular, are often much higher and aren’t always shown in the “Most Viewed” breakdown.I noticed your referrers show a huge spike from Facebook — 7k views in this case. That could be legitimate traffic if your post was widely shared, but it could also be bot or crawler activity, since some automated systems scrape links or generate page previews, which inflates view counts.
Jetpack stats sometimes count these automated visits as regular page views, even though they aren’t real human visitors. You can look at engagement metrics like time-on-page or interactions to see if these views reflect actual readers.
For more details on how Jetpack tracks traffic and what counts as a view, check out this guide:
Understand your traffic sources
Let me know if that helps or if you have any other question. -
It looks like the same issue that impacted my site affected yours. On Monday, I refreshed my monthly stats and saw them drop by 1800+, though the daily stats remain the same. Tech support told me yesterday that they are investigating. We’ll see.
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