why don't visitors show up on my stats page?

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  fgk1 · Member · May 8, 2015 at 5:25 pm

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  Why do the stats show no visits or views when three people “liked” my post? I recently exported and imported my blog to different email address. Could there be a hitch?

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  timethief · Member · May 8, 2015 at 9:18 pm

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  I think there is probably a basic misunderstanding instead. Our stats are not real time stats and take time to update. There are frequent fluctuations that most do not notice because we aren’t watching the process. For details see here http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/ and note the views and viewers take hours to update.

  Our stats are page view stats. But please do not assume that everyone who clicks a follow, like, share, reblog or comment link actually reads the post on your blog because odds are they may not.

  Follow, like, share, reblog or comment clicks are not page views. In fact, follows, likes, shares, comments and reblogs are completely misleading when you are talking about page view stats.

  Your followers and anyone with a WordPress.com/Gravatar account who is logged into WordPress.com can “follow” your blog, “like”, “share” and “reblog” your posts and “comment” in several locations such as the Reader, without ever clicking into your blog and creating a single page view stat. Subscribers control how frequently they receive your posts (instantly, daily, weekly) and can comment without clicking into the blog.

  Logged in 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

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

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  fgk1 · Member · May 9, 2015 at 4:14 pm

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  Thank you. I knew there was a time delay (and so waited two days before posting this question), but I wasn’t aware of the rest. I now realize, duh, you’re right — I myself read other people’s posts on my reader without going to their website. But this makes it impossible, really, to know how many people are reading one’s posts. That’s kind of … disturbing. Anyway, thanks for reading and liking my blog post, as well as for your help here.

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  timethief · Member · May 13, 2015 at 9:52 pm

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  You’re welcome and best wishes with your blog.