What has gone wrong with images now?
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No need to remove/replace the images! Just edit the Description field of the image in the Media Library.
But I do understand your frustration about the change that macmanx has indicated above concerning the change in the image sitemap protocol; I’m just trying to offer an option which will assist your readers.
And actually I overlooked that you have also mentioned something similar to my suggestion in your above post under Point 2; so I am sorry, but I have nothing further to contribute to the discussion. Best wishes to you.
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Thanks justjennifer. As I get the time I will go and do as you suggested and add some additional description text to try and alleviate the problem until hopefully WordPress gives us some better control of this behaviour. Thank you for taking the time to respond.
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OK, since yesterday my images seem to be behaving themselves properly in terms of popping up as larger images within the technical posts rather than as the new attachment page yippee! :-)
However, every image click is being counted as a page hit still :-(
My wife has visited my blog this morning as an anonymous visitor, visited one post and then clicked on the same image within that post three times. My click stats correctly show the stats increasing by 3 on that image so that is great :-), sadly however, the page stats have also increased the count on the post by 4…….. one of those is correct as it is her hitting the post, the other three are false counts due to image clicks.
This makes my blog page stats almost useless. I have approx 100 technical posts with an average of 12 images per post and I generally insert smaller thumbs into the post itself to allow a faster load time and to let the visitors choose which images to view larger. However with this volume of image clicks per post being recorded as page stats it is causes real problems trying to find which are the genuinely most popular posts across multiple visitors as one one visitor deciding to click on every picture raises that posts count way above other more popular posts by unique visitor count.
Before the latest media loader changes my stats showed a consistent and gentle growth in page hits over the previous year. Since the software update my blog is showing at huge hike in page hits and now it is very difficult to differentiate the genuine page stats from the false image stats. My blog attracted 15K (genuine) page hits prior to the recent new media loader, it is now going to show 150K hits in the next year. Sadly 90% of them are fake hits!! Now I know that you may think 15K hits a year is nothing but as my blog is about restoring and refurbishing old Land Rovers so my target audience is probably less than 100K people worldwide and I was quite happy with those hits and the steady but gentle growth. It was also quite easy to see what were genuinely the most popular subjects that attracted new visitors. Now I can’t do that as easily.
Any plans to fix this? I can’t believe I’m the only one doesn’t want artificial page stats? Or as there a way to fiter the stats maybe?
Any help most appreciated.
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LOL! Sorry m4f, because I do understand your gripe. Interestingly and totally irrelevant to a so-called upgrade that involves more work for no added value, I would like to point out that my WP Land Rover blog gets nowhere near as many hits as my blogger one, even though that is no longer updated. You may wish to consider that … because I am.
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Thanks roughseas.
I was just about to pay for the WP premium upgrade too but these media uploader issues, especially the falsified stats problem has put me off. I think it may be better to put that money towards buying my own hosting space and create my own web site. Such a shame as WP has been perfect for me for the last 18 months until this recent update which has been utterly diabolical, it certainly doesn’t appear to have had any testing done to it prior to its release on us :-(
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Just a quick update to this thread. I am now using statcounter as recommended by roughseas and it is excellent. I can now clearly see the actual unique hits and visitors. It also confirms that the wordpress page stats are definately including certain image clicks and are therefore not accurate. However I can now work around this so I’m happy again. I shouldn’t have to of course as the page stats should be just that – page stats but there you go.
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