What is the difference between views and visitors?

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  queermediauk · Member · Jan 3, 2015 at 12:25 pm

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  Hi I have the http://queermedia.org.uk blog and we had 84 views and 67 visitors yesterday and I wondered what is the difference between the two statistics were please? How were the counts made up? Thanks.

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  galois · Member · Jan 3, 2015 at 12:30 pm

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  Views and Visitors

  Jetpack Stats

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  queermediauk · Member · Jan 3, 2015 at 3:55 pm

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  Thanks a lot that’s really helpful. :)

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  timethief · Member · Jan 3, 2015 at 5:06 pm

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  May I add some information please? Our stats are not real time stats and take time to update. There are frequent fluctuations that most do not notice because we aren’t watching the process. For details see here http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/ and note the views and viewers take hours to update.

  Our stats are page view stats. And please do not assume that everyone who clicks a follow, like, share, reblog or comment link actually reads the post on your blog because odds are they may not.

  Follow, like, share, reblog or comment clicks are not page views. In fact, follows, likes, shares, comments and reblogs are completely misleading when you are talking about page view stats.

  Your followers and anyone with a WordPress.com/Gravatar account who is logged into WordPress.com can “follow” your blog, “like”, “share” and “reblog” your posts and “comment” in several locations such as the Reader, without ever clicking into your blog and creating a single page view stat. Subscribers control how frequently they receive your posts (instantly, daily, weekly) and can comment without clicking into the blog.

  Logged in visitors using a mobile can read the full post without creating a page view stat. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/wordpresscom-reader-show-full-text?replies=31#post-1373606

  You can control the length of the entry sent out on your RSS feed here Dashboard > Settings > Reading. Choose the “summary” setting for your RSS feed rather than to “full text”. That will compel followers who are not using mobiles to click into the blog to read the full post which will create a page view stat.

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  galois · Member · Jan 3, 2015 at 5:09 pm

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  @queermediauk: you’re welcome.
  TT: have a nice day. And happy new year to you! :)

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  timethief · Member · Jan 3, 2015 at 5:13 pm

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  @galois
  My wishes for you are the same. :)