Views vs. Visitors
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What is the difference between views and visitors? My stats says I have 1 visitor and 42 views and that just doesn’t seem right.
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Hi there,
You can learn about the difference here: https://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/#views-and-visitors
The two main units of traffic measurement are views and unique visitors. A view is counted when a visitor loads or reloads a page. A visitor is counted when we see a user or browser for the first time in a given period (day, week, month).
So if you have one visitor and 42 views, it means that one person has read something (or reloaded a page) 42 different times.
Hope this helps!
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Hi @karlyforsythe.
The WordPress.com Support page about stats describes views and visitors this way:
A view is counted when a visitor loads or reloads a page.
A visitor is counted when we see a user or browser for the first time in a given period (day, week, month).
From those descriptions it sounds like a visitor to your site that viewed multiple pages would increase the “view” count by the number of pages they visited, while the “visitor” count would only increase by one.
The page also says this:
You may also notice that your visitor count lags behind your views count. This is due to the way we process the numbers. Typically a view is reported within five minutes, while it can take up to two hours for new visitors to show up in your stats.
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