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jamessye on "New stat section? Home page"

jamessye — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 04:48:06 +0000

I was wondering the same thing, and I still am kinda sorta confused, but it's all good... I have a hard time believing that people type in my url that many times a day and check for me...lol I guess I should feel popular...idk

cantueso on "New stat section? Home page"

cantueso — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 11:17:19 +0000

But wait! It is a wonderful novelty.

Imagine! Now getting hits for Rafael Alberti's Nana off the Tortoise because it is on the "Home page"! I had published it once or twice before. It never got a hit.

cantueso on "New stat section? Home page"

cantueso — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 11:13:44 +0000

Yet it is amazing what stuff the system digs up to list as "top posts."

Just now it was "German Christmas MIDI + scores + text". When I published it I knew it would not fetch any hits, and it didn't.

Yesterday, more than once, it was "Children's Wages", about children who work for a living which, of course would also not get any hits normally.

hanni on "New stat section? Home page"

hanni — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 19:30:37 +0000

Hey guys, sorry for the delay. We're looking into the issue with the Top Posts widget. I'll report back asap.

viennesewaltz on "New stat section? Home page"

viennesewaltz — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 08:53:57 +0000

@timethief, thanks for the tip regarding the support page. I will write to them regarding my issue, we'll see if it gets answered but I don't hold out an awful lot of hope.

cantueso on "New stat section? Home page"

cantueso — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 08:05:22 +0000

I like the new stats. The idea seems to be to list the hits as "home page" on the stats page, and then, once there have been a certain number of visits, include it in the top posts by the name of its post.This way the most recent post becomes more important than the rest.

However, there is still a spook in the top post list. About half of the time some post gets listed twice, probably instead of the day's post that is the "home page".

timethief on "New stat section? Home page"

timethief — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:20:18 +0000

@questionof
I'm sorry I can't be more helpful when it comes to this issue. :(

questionof on "New stat section? Home page"

questionof — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:14:38 +0000

Thanks Timethief, I know that - and I contacted WP support about the top posts at the same time as I posted the question here (and got the answer "we can't see anything wrong with your top posts list"... !).
Right now, the 3 top posts on my list are the same (3x "about me"!!)... Maybe that's a good sign though - at least things no longer seem blocked.

timethief on "New stat section? Home page"

timethief — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:14:59 +0000

We volunteers answering forum questions do not have any access to Staff that other wp.com members also have. We do not have any information that other wp.com members do not have. Normally Staff do not spend their time on this forum. Perhaps Andy will post into this thread later, or not.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/

viennesewaltz on "New stat section? Home page"

viennesewaltz — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:11:47 +0000

And, indeed, the "are category views, tag views etc counted as home page views" issue?

ismailimail on "New stat section? Home page"

ismailimail — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:11:11 +0000

It seems the very first entry in the Top Post widget is being generated on random and it appears out of place. The rest of the entries are fine.

The most appropriate model would be the stats in the dashboard (under "Most Active (the past day" section), but this is something only the blog owner can see and not the visitors.

Most likely the support is looking into it and they're trying to resolve.

questionof on "New stat section? Home page"

questionof — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:42:56 +0000

Yes, but can Andy explain the "top posts" issue?

timethief on "New stat section? Home page"

timethief — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:47:31 +0000

@questionof
Andy is the developer of the Stats program http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/new-stat-section-home-page/page/2?replies=54#post-418670

questionof on "New stat section? Home page"

questionof — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:59:59 +0000

Have any WP people made any "official" (and plausible) explainations somewhere regarding all the strange things going on? If so, could someone please tell me where?

buyathread on "New stat section? Home page"

buyathread — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:57:55 +0000

Over xmas I had the same experience as mateomazoo: on at least one day, every one of my posts registered one view (or it seemed like every post). These stats weirdnesses are troubling, whatever is causing them.

viennesewaltz on "New stat section? Home page"

viennesewaltz — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 11:10:52 +0000

My question hasn't been answered yet either, although Andy made reference to the problem. I understand that things like category views, tag views, author views don't count as post views. But do they count as home page views? I would have thought they do, since the number now showing as home page views is simply the total views minus the total post views. An answer to this would be much appreciated – thank you.

questionof on "New stat section? Home page"

questionof — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 07:18:28 +0000

Any others also still having strange things happen to the "top posts"?? My list is still not back to normal.

anummabrooke on "New stat section? Home page"

anummabrooke — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 05:57:53 +0000

I also had the enormous spike on Dec 5 and Jan 5.

Usual numbers were 20-40, but on those days I had about 230 and 270, respectively.

schoolfinder72 on "New stat section? Home page"

schoolfinder72 — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 01:43:41 +0000

I had a little spike yesterday, but it tracked with the SiteMeter info and I just figured it was people getting back to routine after the holidays, but today I've recorded my highest total ever--currently at 336 and counting. Like jmadlc55, I had a huge spike on Dec 5 as well that didn't track with my SiteMeter count. Today's spike also doesn't track with SpikeMeter. It's not a huge deal, but it does kind of niggle that my highest total ever is now probably fictional.

mateomazoo on "New stat section? Home page"

mateomazoo — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 01:16:16 +0000

I'm having the same issue as netequalizer. I haven't posted anything new for over a week and all of the sudden the views spiked way up. What's even stranger in my opinion is that each and every one of my past posts lists exactly one view. This has never happened before and doesn't seem plausible.

netequalizer on "New stat section? Home page"

netequalizer — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:49:49 +0000

There is definitely a bug in the Home Page stats at least the last couple of days.

I checked the history on mine and for all of December this link recorded 300 hits, today alone it is showing 221.. and I have not written anything all that interesting.

WP please fix your bug :)

jmadlc55 on "New stat section? Home page"

jmadlc55 — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:45:48 +0000

Thanks, Andy (Key Master) for stopping by! I appreciate your explanation. I clicked on the icon next to the total Home Page view # and saw a lot more info than I had seen before I posted my doubts.

However, only twice since I started my blog at WP on 7/4/09 the numbers have gone through the roof: 12/5/09 and 1/5/09. The fact that if falls on the same day of the month could be just a coincidence. What I found hard to understand was the incredible increases on those two day. It went from an average of 20 to 30 views per day to over 300. The 6th of the month -- on both occasions went back to normal. I have a who.among.us counter which did not detect any such increase. The counter seems to match the WP counts perfectly on every other day.

On 12/5 I asked tech support for an explanation and was told that the web was just unpredictable. Not to worry.

I'm not worried. There are bigger issues in the world to which I wish to dedicate my energy. But none of the explanations so far make any sense. I refuse to believe that on the same day of the month for two consecutive months I am blessed with a 1200% increase in traffic which disappears the next day. There's no other irregularities or variations at any other time. Zero. And like I said, the other counter did not reflect it either.

Here's what my graph looks like http://screencast.com/t/YzhkYzcy

This seems trivial but I guess it would be great to be convinced.

questionof on "New stat section? Home page"

questionof — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:55:05 +0000

The "Top posts" issue is still not being answered. And I'd really like to know why it's still all messed up!

And the '"stats announcement" (http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2010/01/06/two-new-stats-things/) does not explain why everyone (- well at least a lot of us) tripled our visits the day the change was made before "dropping back to normal". Not that it's really important, but still...

urbanora on "New stat section? Home page"

urbanora — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:36:52 +0000

Is there any answer to the Top Posts issue? So far as I can see, it is picking the top post at random, because it can't select Home Page (which gets the highest score for my blog). Other posts seem to compute OK.

andy on "New stat section? Home page"

andy — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:40:16 +0000

Some people have assumed that we changed the way stats are counted or recorded. This is not true.

Post views are counted when a single post is viewed in a browser. We use the post_id to track these. For internal use only, we have always counted home page views against the non-existent post_id of zero. The new feature simply exposes this data which was previously hidden from view.

Some have posted concerns about the numbers not adding up. This complaint stems from grossly underestimating the power and variety of WordPress URLs. There are many ways to read and browse a blog that do not involve looking at single posts or the home page. There are searches, category views, tag views, author views, and many others. None of these count as post views because they typically show more than one post. Thus it is common for the sum of the day's post views to be less than the total views for the day.

timethief on "New stat section? Home page"

timethief — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:07:45 +0000

People please use the link on your dashboard to the stats announcement and read the explanation here http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2010/01/06/two-new-stats-things/

bernardamus on "New stat section? Home page"

bernardamus — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:55:06 +0000

It has been discussed several time....and I guess the final answer is that we cannot have Google Analytics in wordpress.com....RIGHT???

well I am nearly happy with the built in STATS but....I miss one very relevant parameter:

"WHERE ARE THE CLICKS COMING FROM???"

at least a list of the countries frequently hitting my blog?
can we ask that???

http://bernardamus.wordpress.com

questionof on "New stat section? Home page"

questionof — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:22:05 +0000

Well, one thing's for sure, the "spike" is over :-(
But the "Top posts" issue remains. It's still all wrong! Any WP people out there with an explaination??

keithmansfield on "New stat section? Home page"

keithmansfield — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:44:39 +0000

Love the new feature with the count of homepage visits. I too have had increasing spikes this week and a record day today. To all those who say it's a mistake, I'm sticking my fingers in my ears and pretending I can't hear them! I've a new book coming out tomorrow and will try to believe it's people looking for that...

http://johnnymackintosh.wordpress.com

erns on "New stat section? Home page"

erns — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:21:09 +0000

nooo... we had a post-holiday spike on Monday, but yesterday was kind of off the charts. Seems like there is something else at play.