WordPress.com Forums » Topic: discrepancy between 'likes' and visitor stats http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/discrepancy-between-likes-and-visitor-stats WordPress.com Forums » Topic: discrepancy between 'likes' and visitor stats en Fri, 24 May 2013 23:34:33 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 1weaver on "discrepancy between 'likes' and visitor stats" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/discrepancy-between-likes-and-visitor-stats#post-1066289 Sun, 11 Nov 2012 10:15:17 +0000 1weaver 1066289@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ thank you, timethief. (cool that you are my reply-er as i have appreciated your help comments while searching around on the forum *several* times!)

from your answer, i have to to deduce that readers are liking, which is lovely, but not really reading: my stats page allows me to see if someone is referred from an address either within or without of my site but thats a different issue, i guess. i do understand that stats can't be 'real-time'.
many thanks for your time. i am very happy with my wordpress site, all in all.

]]> timethief on "discrepancy between 'likes' and visitor stats" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/discrepancy-between-likes-and-visitor-stats#post-1066097 Sat, 10 Nov 2012 21:51:27 +0000 timethief 1066097@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Likes and shares are misleading when you are talking about page view stats. Your followers and anyone with a WordPress.com blog who is logged into WordPress.com can "like" and "share" your posts in several locations such as the Reader without ever clicking into your blog and creating a page view stat.
http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/07/09/wordpress-followers-likes-and-stats/

WordPress.com stats are not real time stats. That means they take time to update. Also as I posted above one does not need to click into your blog and create a page view stat to click a like button.

Why don’t post/page views add up to total views?
Post/page views are included in total views, but there are many views to your site that are not a post or page URL. The front pages, category/tag/date/author archives, and searches are all examples of other views that only count towards total views. http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/#additional-info

]]> 1weaver on "discrepancy between 'likes' and visitor stats" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/discrepancy-between-likes-and-visitor-stats#post-1065976 Sat, 10 Nov 2012 17:09:35 +0000 1weaver 1065976@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ hi, my latest post shows 8 'likes' but my stats page shows no increase in visitors. how can this be? (my posts feeder only gives the first paragraph of a post)

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