Why can't I view my stats

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    father85 · Member ·

    I started a new blog a few days ago and whenever I go to view my stats it tells me there are no stats available at this time. People have read the blog as I have comments, likes and followers but for some reason there is no stat information. Any ideas what is happening to cause this?

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    timethief · Member ·

    WordPress.com subscribers, including all followers from social media sites if you use the Publicize app are found here
    http://wordpress.com/my-stats/?blog_subscribers

    Email followers are found here http://wordpress.com/my-stats/?blog_subscribers&type=email

    Be aware that our stats are not real time stats. For details see here http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/ Note the views and viewers take hours to update.

    Moreover, those who follow your blog in the Reader or by email don’t have to click into the blog unless they wish to. Be aware that likes, follows, shares and reblogs are not page views. In fact, likes, shares and reblogs are completely 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”, “share” and “reblog” your posts in several locations such as the Reader, without ever clicking into your blog and creating a single page view stat.

    You can control the length of the entry sent out on your RSS feed here > 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.

    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

    Note that setting the RSS Feed to summary does not affect the length of the post displayed on the front page or main page for posts on the blog. To create excerpts there we can split content by inserting “the more tag” http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/

    Also note that you can disable “Sharing” on the same page:
    Settings > Reading
    Add to each article in your feed:
    Categories
    Tags
    Comment count
    Sharing
    Changes may not appear until you create a new post or your news reader refreshes.

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