why aren't the stats reliable?
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I really like wordpress and I’ve been blogging for more than 2 years.The only problem is that I do not find the stats reliable. I’ve a networkedblogs connection and also have several groups on my facebook page, and when I visit my articles in the facebook page I can see how many people have read them and that is nowhere near from the stats update you give me. I will continue writing my blogs here that won’t change, but I hope that my report could help you getting better with the only thing that seems under your standards.
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I hope you recognize that exactly who shares your posts on Facebook is a privacy issue and those stats are not provided to WordPress.com.
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That I understand, but when my posts are shared on facebook, it’s only the “teaser” of it, so if someone wants to read the entire post must do a click on the link and goes directly to my wordpress blog. that click being done from facebook to wordpress don´t appear in the wordpress stats?
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timethief since you were really fast on first answering my question, I hope you can answer to my reply. thank you
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I have people share one of my Posts from time to time on Facebook – I will see just “Facebook” in the referral section – no specific info about where on Facebook – don’t know what I would see if someone did an “Open in New Tab / Window” option when they visited my site
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so if someone wants to read the entire post must do a click on the link and goes directly to my wordpress blog. that click being done from facebook to wordpress don´t appear in the wordpress stats?
A click as you described it should be counted as a view in WordPress.com, but not ever visit on the Facebook side will result in a click.
So the stats are inherently measuring different things on different systems that aren’t connected on the server side of things. Also, no two stats systems consistently and perfectly measure the same things the same way. For example, one system might track search crawler bots while another system doesn’t. (That’s just one possible example.) How you should really be looking at stats is comparing them over time within each system.
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