Turning off stats tracking for visits to my own sites
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HI WordPress: Today, I noticed my own visits are now being counted when I visit my 3 blogs:
whatbeautifullight.com
iwonderandwander.rudyfoto.com
path2wisdom.comThis is all new. This may be related to me having to do a clean remove of Mozilla from my OSX 10.8.5 operating system and resinstalling because of a Javascript problem that had no other solution. Or not?
As of now, whenever I visit my site, it counts with my stats tracking. This has never happened before until today or just right after I reinstalled Mozilla. Visits using Safari are counting too.
How do I turn this off? I checked forum threads 4-6 years old and 1 year old and don’t see where I can make the fix. (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiH–CNpOzMAhVW9WMKHTqEBCcQFgg8MAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.forums.wordpress.com%2Ftopic%2Fmy-stats-are-counting-my-own-visits&usg=AFQjCNGbsQlFjsLhnIzQAp0XZnx2j7w4FQ&sig2=gXRo5A3Tmmbvl7W0CWzA-A)
Any advice? I have removed myself as a follower o Whatbeautifullight.com. After I did that, checked if I was still being counted, I see that I am.
Also strange difference too wth my site. Before I did the reinstall of Mozilla, whenever I opened my page it showed me as logged in, and I could see the stats bar. Now when I come back to the page, even when I didn’t log out, I have to type whatbeautifullight.com/admin to have that stats bar return. That’s entirely new. I did download an app to allow for editing in classic editor yesterday too. javascript:(function(){var%20p=location.pathname.match(/(post|page)(?:/([^/]+)(?:/(d+|new)?)?)?/);var%20b=document.querySelector(‘.post-editor__sidebar%20a.site__content’).href;location.replace((!p[3]||p[3]==’new’)?(b+’wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=’+p[1]):(b+’wp-admin/post.php?post=’+p[3]+’&action=edit’))})()
Thanks. I really would like to turn off counting myself. Otherwise I can’t gather accurate stats. Thanks very much!
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi Supernova: Well, I can’t figure out what’s going on here. The site isn’t acting as it does. I double checked. On Safari, it is not counting my visits. On my reinstalled Firefox it is. I am NOT following any of my sites (I checked that). I can’t see any tool available to me that shuts this off. I looked up about 6 forums and didn’t see an answer, or the posts were 6 years old. I checked again, and when I opened a new page on my blog, when I ‘m supposedly logged in as the administrator, it’s being counted.
So just delete Firefox? Or does WP have a solution I can explore and will do so. Is this more related to Firefox compatibility again with WP for my version of OSX (10.8.5)? Baffled.
I guess I don’t understand how to interpret your answer as bout not being logged into a public site? Can you provide more for me? Thank you.
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Hi Supernove: OK I think I did what you wanted. See if this now makes sense to you. Pictures should be able to be identified by my description and address line in snapshot. http://imgur.com/a/muwL1
1. Open Firefox.
2. Type and and open whatbeautifullight.com
3. Type “whatbeautifullight.com/admin” in address line and now it opens to “whatbeautifullight.com/wp-admin”
4. Click on stats bar
5. See stats page showing visit is being counted (but you can’t tell that from the snapshot, but it’s happening. -
So, should I assume this is a dead end at this point? I really have no other ideas to chance. Thanks still if you can help, Supernova.
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Hi @rsdowens, just to confirm, you never see a page like this, right?
https://cloudup.com/cwFFWRTO_bIIn some browsers I have seen that “thumbnail” preview count as a site visit.
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I can’t really see what those pages area, but I have tested this about a dozen times now. Mozilla counts every page I visit. Safari does. I don’t think this relates to thumbnail previews because the counts are associated with each page I click on. I’ve tested this page by page by page.
Another weird element is this “Follow” popup in the lower right corner. It appears now in Mozilla, not Safari. See here:
http://imgur.com/zXBu25F -
Hi Rudy,
I think the problem is that you’re not signed into WordPress.com in Firefox. The popup you can see at the bottom right is only visible to users who are not signed into WordPress.com and I also can’t see the black admin bar across the top of your site in the screenshot.
If you sign into WordPress.com with Firefox it will stop counting your views when you visit the site.
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rachelsquirrel: Tested and retested that hypothesis. But I did it again. Log out wordpress. Log in wordpress. Visit whatbeautifullight.com once logged. That small “follow” popup still there. Checked pages and was able to verify that even when signed in it’s WordPress is counting my visit. So at this point, I sense this isn’t solvable. I’ll delete Firefox again and reinstall. If that fails again I’m going to assume this is an issue with my version of OSX, my version of Firefox, and WordPress. I will install Chrome. Safari still is working, but I’m having problems with that. Likely I will finally have to update my OSX 10.8.5.
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Check whether you’ve got third party cookies enabled in Firefox. You can check here:
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Hi
A similar thing happened to me years ago when I first began a blog.
You said:-
1. Open Firefox.
2. Type and open whatbeautifullight.com
3. Type “whatbeautifullight.com/admin” in address line and now it opens to “whatbeautifullight.com/wp-admin”
4. Click on stats bar
5. See stats page showing visit is being counted (but you can’t tell that from the snapshot, but it’s happening.If you are accessing your site first at No 2 then that will count as a visit. Are you leaving that window open in the background and then logging into your admin area too?
Perhaps just logging directly into admin is the way to make sure your own visits aren’t counted?
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Thanks for your input rachelsquirrel and themagicrobot. Rachel gets the prize. It was my settings in Firefox. I had set my preferences to NOT accept third party cookies. I clicked the preference to accept them from sites I visited. I triple checked if my visits were no counted on my blog, and they are no longer counted. So it was all about accepting the wordpress.com cookie. All is well in Whatbeautifullight.com (and my other blogs). I will remember this.
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