Why is my stats page empty?
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So, recently added a new blog to my account. My stats page is simply empty since the past three days. I have likes and followers but the page doesn’t show any visits. Why is this happening?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Folks can like and / or follow your blog in various ways. They do not need to visit your site to do so. Reader. Email subscriptions. RSS feed. and possibly, though I’m not sure, FaceBook…
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Tess has given you a good clue as to what’s going on.
Stats record actual page views and they are not real time stats ie. they do take hours to update. Settings that aside, likes and shares are misleading when you are talking about page view stats. Your followers and anyone with a WordPress.com or Gravatar account, who is logged into WordPress.com can “like” and “share” your posts in several locations such as in email and the Reader, without ever clicking into your blog and creating a page view stat. It’s only when a visitor clicks into the site that a page view stat is created.
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 the “full text” to compel followers to click in and read the full post on the blog thereby creating a page view stat.
Note that doing that 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 at Settings > Reading:
Add to each article in your feed:
Categories
Tags
Comment count
SharingChanges may not appear until you create a new post or your news reader refreshes.
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