Why can't I get any detailed information on my site anymore??
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You say that in Oct 2013 Google started to restrict the information they pass to wordpress and that you’re doing something about it? How come a year later and you’ve done NOTHING ABOUT IT?!!!!!!!!!!!! Now I can’t tell anything useful from my friggin’ stats page and I want to know how the heck I can get valuable information about what’s going on with my blog? Do I have to pay? I looked and the only useful upgrade you seem to have for offer is no ads, but how about some DATA on my visitors????????????? HOW ABOUT SOME STATISTICS??? CAN YOU OFFER ME SOMETHING OF VALUE??? Or will you continue to just make this less and less useful until people go away????? I want to know how people find my site, and it would be helpful to know their paths through my site too. It’s not impossible and if you wanted me to upgrade, you’d give me something of value for that.
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Stats on WordPress.com are already pretty good for what we pay in terms of money (nothing) and time (again, nothing). There is no paid upgrade for Stats.
Please check this post: http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/06/18/stats/ and all the other posts in this series. They provide very detailed information on how to use Stats.
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Hey member, thanks for trying.
I didn’t know this went to members and not the individuals who are offering the service.
I am referring to this.
So read that and everything else related to that and respond.
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You too. Thanks for trying!
I’ll at least leave you with something amusing for your time. Google is restricting the search term information, so I get none of that, unless people use one of two Google Chrome add-ons (paid for, no less) to “protect” their search privacy :P LOL That must be the root of the problem…
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Hi there,
I’m not quite sure what you are looking for in terms of stats? You can view referrers from the Referrers module on your Stats page. That will show you how they got to your site.
There wouldn’t be an upgrade to get better stats. Everyone, including upgraded Premium/Business users have the same stats as free users.
Cheers!
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The stats would be the search terms used. In the past, the search terms used by visitors to locate my site helped me a great deal to know what types of questions my readers had (and sometimes what type of articles to write because I hadn’t answered that question, for example).
As you can see from this here link http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/#search-engine-terms
Where it is written:
Search Engine Terms
These are the terms, words, and phrases people use, through various search engines (i.e. Google, Yahoo, Bing), to find posts and pages on your WordPress.com blog. Please note that these do not include the terms which your readers use within your blog’s Search Widget or any other search form on your blog.
Some search engines don’t reveal search terms for privacy reasons. That’s why we don’t always know which search terms were used by visitors who arrived at your site from a search engine. When we don’t know the search terms, we show them as “Unknown search terms”.
UPDATE: In September 2013 Google started to rapidly expand the number of searches that it encrypts, which results in a higher proportion of “Unknown search terms” in your stats. According to some sources, this expansion will eventually result in encryption of all Google searches. This is being done for privacy reasons by Google when someone searches at Google.com, before a visitor arrives at your WordPress.com site. Therefore we don’t have any way to unhide the search terms. We recognize this means a loss of stats information for you and we will look for other ways to show you how users arrived at your site.
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Well OBVIOUSLY unless WordPress.com goes into the encryption-breaking business, it cannot know what’s in encrypted searches. There’s just no way around that. That’s the whole point of encryption.
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Well OBVIOUSLY the whole point of the question is that WordPress stated they would find other ways to bring us the information, and yet they have not done so in an entire YEAR.
We recognize this means a loss of stats information for you and we will look for other ways to show you how users arrived at your site.
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Signup for Google Web Master Tools – then you will see search terms – from Google
And as @RC notes above – WordPress.COM would need to break Google’s encryption, sort of like what the NSA is now doing to you
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There’s an idea. You could ask the NSA.
They said they would look. They didn’t say they would succeed in finding.
OBVIOUSLY.
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Hi there,
I see! I would recommend exactly what @auxclass has stated. Sign up for Google Webmaster Tools and you can verify your site with this support guide:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/webmaster-tools/#google-webmaster-tools
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