WordPress Stats

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  orinocho · Member · Jul 17, 2020 at 5:01 pm

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  Please can you help me understand my WordPress stats as there’s something I don’t quite understand. It’s to do with Views, Visitors, Referrers and Authors.

  I guess the ‘Views’ is a record of the number of pages viewed in a 24 hour period and the ‘Visitors’ is the number of individual people who visit the site? What are ‘Referrers’ & ‘Authors’? Today my blog stats show the following:

  Views: 30
  Visitors: 10

  Under Referrer’s, I have Facebook: 1 and WordPress Android App:1
  Under Author’s, I have Author: Orinocho 21 and Blank: 7

  Does ‘Author: Orinocho’ mean 21 individual visits as well? I’m confused!

  Many thanks

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  themagicrobot · Member · Jul 17, 2020 at 5:14 pm

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  I never bother with the “author” stats as I don’t find them very accurate. The numbers displayed should really match the “views” as they are one and the same thing. “author” stats are really only of any use when a site has multiple authors posting.

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  orinocho · Member · Jul 17, 2020 at 5:33 pm

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  Thanks Robot. But what makes up the Author numbers?

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  staff-mckluskey · Staff · Jul 18, 2020 at 9:25 am

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  The “Author” part tells you how many views were to posts made by that particular author.