viewers vs. visitors

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  myghostinme · Member · Mar 4, 2013 at 12:55 pm

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  Please define a viewer vs. a visitor in the stats section

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  amightywp · Member · Mar 4, 2013 at 4:02 pm

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  Hi there,

  The best way to differentiate between the two is to give an example. If you have a photo on your site of a zebra and it was picked up by the image search engines at Yahoo, Google, Bing, etc; then when people viewed that image of a zebra (your image), that would count as a view. They weren’t visiting your site unless they were actually clicking through to the page, but they were viewing content.

  A visitor is someone who actually loads up a page from your site.

  I hope this helps!