Traffic on heavily hit post drops to zero?
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Other than the homepage, the post that has gotten the most traffic on my blog Tuned In To Music (a review of a Donna Summer greatest hits compilation – surprised me too) has been hit about 13,500 times since it went up three years ago. It usually gets hit somewhere between 15 and 30 times a day, every day without fail. For the past three days (including today) it has not been hit once. During that time “donna summer” shows up in the list of search terms users used to get to the blog but the post shows no hits (there are no other Donna Summers reviews on the site). The post with the second highest traffic rate (a review of an album by Metric) has received about 11,000 hits and it also has received no hits in the past three days. Both posts can be accessed normally via a search on the blog – in other words, they’re both still there.
Both of these posts received many more hits than anything else in the blog except the home page; the post with the third most traffic has about 4,000 hits. Hits on everything else on the site appears to be functioning normally in that the daily hit totals are about what would be expected with hits on the Summer and Metric posts removed.
An occasional day with no hits wouldn’t be cause for concern. However, a period of about 60 hours with no hits on the two posts on the blog which have consistently received the most hits on a daily basis over the past three years by a very large margin combined with what appears to be normal traffic for everything else on the site doesn’t look like coincidence.
Does anyone know what might be going on here? Has WordPress changed the way it logs hits? Might the blog be bugged?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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The same thing has happened to me. In fact, my entire blog readership has plummeted by two-thirds in the past few weeks since I signed up to be a “beta tester” with WordPress to host Google ads on my site.
What’s going on? Is WordPress changing the way it calculates blog stats?
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My hits have dropped by 1/3rd-1/2 over the past week, and I haven’t signed up to beta test anything. I’ve already contacted staff twice about it. If I hadn’t gotten a link from a major German newspaper today, my hits would be totally in the toilet. And tons of referrer spam.
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I sent an email to WordPress support to find out what’s happening here. Is this site-wide?
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I’m wondering if this issue might perhaps be related:
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/my-posts-not-showing-up-on-wordpresscom-tags?replies=6
They changed something with the permalinks recently.
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I think we need some staff feedback at this point. I’ll ping them yet again and point them to this thread.
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Thank you, Raincoaster. I emailed WordPress Support about this and am disappointed that I have not heard back from them.
My blog still shows up in search engines. But the stats are still in the tank.
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I haven’t heard a thing either, and my hits are completely ridiculously low. A blog that normally gets 2000+ hits got (single viral post aside) fewer than 800 hits yesterday.
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It may be that the blogs are getting hit but the way hits are logged is screwed up. Today my stats page shows 8 “views” from the use of “donna summer” as a search term while the Top Posts and Pages shows no hits on the Donna Summer review, stats for the Donna Summer review show no hits for today, and the daily totals are in the range expected if the typical Donna Summer hits are absent. This looks like people are viewing the Donna Summer review but the hits aren’t being counted.
Regarding other possible correlations people have mentioned: I’m not part of any WordPress betas and Tuned In To Music shows up in Google, Bing and Yahoo searches.
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That could well be, that the measurement is off. I know the referrer spam situation is being dealt with and if they were a regular source of hits, that would result in a drop. But instead, it seems like my regular 50-10 hit referrers are referring zero. It’s either a thousand hits through one link or just one. Something’s gone weird.
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Has anyone learned anything more about what is going on with the problems wordpress seems to be having logging hits correctly?
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@kmurnane
This is the support entry re: stats http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/
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I have been working with staff and haven’t reached an answer yet. I HAVE noticed that I am getting zero hits from Google Image Search, whereas before I got a great deal. Hits continue to drop, almost as if I had stopped posting completely two weeks ago.
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Look at this travesty:
Also, I have recently become unable to find my blog in google except in the case of a very few top posts, even when searching the exact title and including categories and/or first sentence. My local category pages are completly gone from Google.
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Though my numbers are nowhere close to raincoaster’s, my graph has nearly fallen off the bottom of the page, too. I went to Google and had a similar experience: where I once would have seen a goodly list of posts, now there are one or two. I had taken a break of about a week, and I realize it’s summer here in the US, but something seems definitely amiss.
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