why aren't my stats working today?

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  graciamc · Member · Jul 10, 2012 at 1:05 am

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  My Stats are not working today. It shows one visit but I have 4 “likes” so that’s not right.
  Blog url: http://graciamc.wordpress.com/

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  thecleanplater · Member · Aug 13, 2012 at 7:13 pm

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  Did you ever figure out an answer to this? I’ve had the same problem 2 of the last 5 days.

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  graciamc · Member · Aug 13, 2012 at 7:17 pm

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  I never heard from wordpress but I’m wondering if it’s that followers can “like” your blog from their reader page without actually going to the page. If that’s the way it works we don’t get a click for that. :-(

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  thegiddygoat · Member · Aug 13, 2012 at 7:21 pm

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  @graciamc you are correct. That is how it works. People can like a post without ever visiting your blog. Only an actual visit to the blog can provide a ‘hit’

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  timethief · Member · Aug 13, 2012 at 7:39 pm

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  To be clear likes and shares are misleading when you are talking about page view stats. Your followers and anyone with a WordPress.com blog who is logged into WordPress.com can “like” and “share” your posts in several locations without ever clicking into your blog and creating a page view stat. Those who have username accounts only but no blog can become followers and click the “like” and/or “share” buttons. Those who do not have accounts cannot use the like button. http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/07/09/wordpress-followers-likes-and-stats/