viewed or active traffic?

• 

  chrisgilsenan · Member · Nov 12, 2008 at 6:49 pm

  • Copy link
  • Add topic to favorites

  I looked on FAQ for awhile for this too, but no dice for me: I might have a hundred site visits in a day, but the stats say only maybe 7 views of the front (newest) post, and then has another category called active. How is this possible? If they click into the site, that’s a view, right? what makes a view active? thanks!

• 

  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Nov 12, 2008 at 7:35 pm

  • Copy link

  I’m not sure you have a WordPress.COM blog! Read the “8 things” sticky at the top of this forum and link your site to your name.

• 

  chrisgilsenan · Member · Nov 15, 2008 at 7:01 pm

  • Copy link

  thanks! found the 8 things, linked it up, should have found that first, oops.

  back to the question: the stats might show 100 visits to the site, but only 4 views of the main first newest post. how is that possible? further, what does most active post mean, when there still are very few views listed?

  thanks!

• 

  rosclarke · Member · Nov 15, 2008 at 8:09 pm

  • Copy link

  Most of those views will see your main blog page rather than a specific post. If one of your readers then clicks on the link to view a post (perhaps to read the comments, because you’ve used a more tag, or because there’s a direct link to that post from another site) then that will be registered as a view of that post.