Traffic, why isn't it represented properly?
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Hi, I’m new to all of this and I have a question about the traffic. My stats say I only have 1 viewer (from my own country – guess it’s me?) but there are already three people who like my blog (and I know from where they are), why aren’t they represented in the stats? I just don’t understand how that system works, can somebody please explain to me why or perhaps is there another tool I can use to see from where all the traffic comes? A big thanks in advance!
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Our stats are not real time stats. For details see here http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/ and note the views and viewers take hours to update. Also note that those who follow your blog in the Reader or by email don’t have to click into the blog unless they wish to.
Likes and shares and reblogs are not page views. In fact, likes, shares and reblogs are completely misleading when you are talking about page view stats. Your followers and anyone with a WordPress.com blog who is logged into WordPress.com can “like”, “share” and “reblog” your posts in several locations such as the Reader, without ever clicking into your blog and creating a single page view stat.
You can control the length of the entry sent out on your RSS feed here > 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.
Visitors using a mobile can read the full post without creating a page view stat regardless of that setting. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/wordpresscom-reader-show-full-text?replies=31#post-1373606
Note that setting the RSS Feed to summary does not affect the length of the post displayed on the front page or main page for posts on the blog. To create excerpts there we can split content by inserting “the more tag” http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/
Also note that you can disable “Sharing” on the same page:
Settings > Reading
Add to each article in your feed:
Categories
Tags
Comment count
Sharing
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or perhaps is there another tool I can use to see from where all the traffic comes?
I use sitemeter on both of my blogs. Note we can only use the non-JavaScript version of the code. We paste the code into a text widget.
http://www.sitemeter.com/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/text-widget/ -
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Thanks a lot! That was very helpful! This sitemeter does apply on a free WordPress account, right? -
This sitemeter does apply on a free WordPress account, right?
Site Meter will work here (I also use it) if you get the plain html code – NOT the script code – been a while since I set mine up but the plain html code was not too hard to find if my memory is correct
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Oh ok, thanks! I guess that’s what I’ve been doing wrong, I’ve been struggeling a bit with this (I’m not so good with this)
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It is exactly what I stated above.
Click this link http://www.sitemeter.com/
Register an account.
Get the non-JavaScript code and copy and paste it into a text widget. http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/text-widget/ -
If you want to check out other free visitor tracking programs we can use on free hosted WordPress.com blogs go to my blogging tips blog and locate the posts under the Visitor Tracking category. http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/category/visitor-tracking/
This is a multiuser blogging platform. Our blogs are not free standing. There is no FTP access to free hosted WordPress.com blogs and we bloggers cannot install any plugins. There is no upgrade you can purchase that will provide FTP access and the ability to install plugins, upload themes, and/or edit templates and themes in a free hosted WordPress.com blog.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/ftp-access/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/adding-new-themes/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/plugins/
To use plugins you must hire a web host and then set up your own WordPress.org install. Please read this comparison > http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/ -
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I’m sorry to bother and this is maybe a stupid question but where is that non-JavaScript code?
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