Where does a referrer labelled "wordpress.com reader" come from?

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  mattmulcahey · Member · Oct 22, 2013 at 12:20 am

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  I’m a newbie trying to decipher the specifics of my stats. I was operating under the assumption that any view that isn’t a referred view came courtesy of a wordpress user. (i.e. if I had 100 total views on a given day and 50 came of them came from referrers, the remaining 50 came from wordpress users).

  However, yesterday I had a referrer labeled as “wordpress.com reader.” Does that mean that one of my blog followers arrived at my blog from their reader?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  auxclass · Member · Oct 22, 2013 at 12:48 am

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  Does that mean that one of my blog followers arrived at my blog from their reader?

  Yes

  Don’t worry much about the count – the trend is what you want to look at – new and low traffic blogs have big swings in traffic, just the way it works

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  mattmulcahey · Member · Oct 22, 2013 at 12:59 am

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  Thanks for the response, auxclass.

  I’m still a little confused about one thing – where do views come from that aren’t attributable to a referrer?

  My blog is three months old and has approximately 2,600 views – of which about 1,300 are listed as having been referred. Where did the remainder of those views come from.

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  auxclass · Member · Oct 22, 2013 at 1:50 am

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  Many people read more than one Post. I average about 1.7 page views per visitor of recent, had one visitor today look at about 100 pages (pictures of a boat delivery trip I did several years ago)