uncertainty of stats
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How uncertain is the counter? I have 10 hits today by one person, it says. It isn’t completely unlikely that somebody goes back to the home page (where he can read everything) five times while he also hits three other pages twice, but it’s more unlikely that one hit has come from the US while all others from Hungary. It’s also strange that I get a ‘follow’ on another of my blogs three days after stats show any movement. Anyway, it often happens that I have 2 or 3 persons in stats out of 6 or 7 different countries, then I get a ‘like’ from somewhere that the counter doesn’t show (the person’s whereabouts at the time was clear). I know that it is almost impossible to get wordpress in China, except if someone has a program to hide his whereabouts, so how did China (not Hong Kong) show up on the counter once? Just asking. Still, grateful if I get an answer. Cheers from Peter
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Hi there,
I think that this page will answer a lot of your questions:
But to address some of them, if you look at the stats for your page http://learningeuropeanandchinesesinging.wordpress.com/ (which appears to be the blog you were asking about), you can now see that there were 3 visitors who viewed 10 pages. The stats document which I referenced above will tell you that visitors get recorded slower than page views.
The document also explains that you can get follows and likes from people who have never actually visited your page, but instead have found it from the WordPress.com Reader.
Finally, to our knowledge, not all of WordPress.com is unavailable within China, especially with some workarounds which do not change the originating location. So it is entirely possible that someone was able to view your site from within China! :)
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Hi, thanks, some of it is now clearer. However, I haven’t only referred to that one page of mine. On my speterkar1.wordpress.com site I’ve had several likes on various photo-pages a few days ago, one by an older acquaintance who visited my other sites as well, yet, no movement seems to have taken place at all on those posts in the stats. I’m still in doubt.
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Hi there,
I’d be more than happy to address any specific questions you might have. Let me know if I can help clarify things.
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Was my last one not specific? Here’s a new one. I had 8 views yesterday on the ‘Top posts and pages’ count and only five on the ‘Views by country’ count. Where from did the others look at our Chinese singing site? Back to another one before: ‘Just a simple guy’ “liked” five of my posts on the ‘Chinese paintings etc.’ site but there seems to have been no visitors on the site on that day. Why, and where is this simple guy from? Another one: ‘lesleycarter’ liked two ‘Sculptures’ pages on the same site, but she doesn’t seem to have been there on that day, although she appeared earlier – on the same day only somebody else appeared on the site as sole visitor to the ‘About Chinese singing’ bit. These days, such questions seem to come up almost every day and create the impressions that the counter sometimes tends to be quite unreliable. Like with that first question: did I really get 8 views, or only 5?
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Hi there,
In the additional questions section of that help article I sent, there is a bit about our Reader which explains that people can like and view your articles without visiting your site because they are viewing them via the WordPress.com Reader. You can also get followers/subscribers without them actually visiting your site by the same method (because the buttons to like and subscribe are on the reader, but the viewer does not visit your actual page).
In regards to you having 8 views by 5 countries, I would suspect that 3 of the 8 came from the same country as one of the other viewers.
I hope this clears things up.
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