Why is a Media file showing up under my stats "top posts and pages"?
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Gave me a shock, I thought someone must have hacked my blog and published this photo as a whole post! When I click on the title, the photo comes up as if it’s a post on my blog. When I click to edit, a media file for that photo comes up.
Why is this media file showing up (in my stats) under the posts and pages heading, and not in the ‘clicks’ section under wordpress.com media? It’s listed as having 7 views. Does this mean a reader has somehow gotten in to my media library? It’s a photo that I used in the post I just published today—part of a photo gallery. (First time I’ve used galleries)
Thanks for any info!
http://loopbraider.com/readers-gallery-time/ckurtonic5loopclon6bf/
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Clicks only shows the links that lead people OFF your blog. That’s on your blog.
Your blog has not been hacked. Clearly, someone has linked to that image or hotlinked it and is driving traffic to it. There was no need to delete the image.
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Thanks, raincoaster, and no, I didn’t delete the image, it would have left a hole in my last post!
The ‘clicks’ section does also show all the times readers click on on of my images, even though the click takes them to a url on my site for that image. That’s where I’m used to seeing clicks on my images…
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http://loopbraider.com/readers-gallery-time/ckurtonic5loopclon6bf/ goes to a Post Not Found for me. Does it work for you?
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Yes, it goes to a photo that I used in a gallery of my recent post:
http://loopbraider.com/2013/08/29/readers-pics/The photo comes up set into a page that looks as if it is a post on my blog (but it is not–if I click to edit it, a media file for that photo in my media library comes up, ready for me to edit it)
It’s not just that photo—it’s turned out that today’s views in my stats (posts and pages) are hugely inflated by a large number of clicks on photos in various galleries of that post above! Oddly, some are listed in a drop-down from the “homepage” views, and others are listed separately as if they were posts.
This is very misleading, as clicks on photos (when not in a gallery) have never been counted as page views in the close-to-3 years I’ve been blogging…they were always just counted under “clicks” (now in a subheading called wordpress media clicks). And it’s still the case that any clicks today on photos not in galleries are NOT added to my page views. Only these gallery clicks…
I like having an accurate idea of how many page views I’m getting
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Almost a quarter of today’s “page views” are actually clicks on various photos within one post!
This really skews my stats, which superficially looks very ego-gratifying, but really ends up making them kind of meaningless…How am I supposed to compare my day to other days?
My blog gets a sizable number of it pageviews from past posts, so this will continue to be a problem, even if I refrain from using galleries in the future (which is a shame, I really liked them for this type of post with a lot of photos)…
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