Okay, superbloggers. It has been said that anything can be solved with statistics, but this one is impossible!!! How can it be that there have been 154 viewings of my Migraine blog today but only 45 viewers? I’ve seen before where one person viewed several blog entries, but it is impossible to chalk up more than one view per viewer for each single posting, and who would want to see it more than once, anyway? Can anyone solve this mystery?
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From my experience, just by going onto the actual site to view the post plus commenting would equal 2 to 3 views. So if you have people commenting on the post, it’s pretty likely. Also some people may go to this post and then click on another post and later go back to this post, there, that’s another 2 views from one viewer. I hope I solved this blogging mystery. 🙂
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But none of these people commented and are you sure two visits to the same site post constitutes two visits? I’ll have to check, but in this case it wouldn’t account for it. Mystery not quite solved, but thanks for the info, Yinglan.
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Hmm, now that is odd. I think either something weird is going on or the stats are not yet updated. Sometimes, it takes a while to update the visitor count. Good luck and I hope you’ll figure it out soon.
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Thanks, Yinglan. I appreciate your venturing a solution! I think I’ll Google it and see what I come up with.
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Good luck.
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Beats me! I don’t understand any of it at all, but I’m still getting a kick out of reading search terms on my stats page.
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Yes…There have been some really funny ones on my site as well. Usually, because someone interpreted a nonsexual term as being sexual.
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Web crawlers, most likely. They can mess up the numbers.
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Can you think of why 118 web crawlers would all suddenly descend on my site? And all from Great Britain? Not questioning your solution. Just trying to understand it.
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Sorry. No answers here.
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I found a website that might be helpful in adding to your confusion. But it explains how WordPress’s engine determines visits versus unique visit.
http://wpengine.com/support/count-visits/
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Thanks so much, your majesty…I’m going to read it now.
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I believe it is …. if people only read and like your blog through WordPress viewer it doesn’t show up as a view on your blog. I commonly have more likes than views. Because of this I don’t ever use the Word Press reader to like anymore. I want to make sure that people actually get a view for every time I enter their blog. That’s my only explanation.
I know when I view Chris’s blog through her blog she will get views for every post I look at. Even if I have been there before. The views seem to work that way really well.
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But these showed up as views but not viewers or likes. If people view through the WordPress viewer without actually going to the blog, it can record as a like but not as a view, correct? I often get more viewings than viewers but figure they are just going to more than one blog entry and this is usually borne out by the stats. But these 118 views that don’t seem to have recorded as viewers still has me stumped. And, they are all from Great Britain.
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That is weird……Maybe some kind of a one time glitch.
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