WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Wide disparity in page view counts http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/wide-disparity-in-page-view-counts WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Wide disparity in page view counts en Fri, 24 May 2013 22:23:17 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 onfollowingchrist on "Wide disparity in page view counts" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/wide-disparity-in-page-view-counts#post-349841 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:26:11 +0000 onfollowingchrist 349841@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I see. Thanks very much, raincoaster, that adds an important layer of understanding to what's going on!

Very glad this topic didn't scroll off unanswered!

Paul

]]> raincoaster on "Wide disparity in page view counts" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/wide-disparity-in-page-view-counts#post-349746 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:21:53 +0000 raincoaster 349746@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Oh, right, just remembered: Wp.com strips out hits from bots. bit.ly probably counts them. That'd do it.

]]> raincoaster on "Wide disparity in page view counts" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/wide-disparity-in-page-view-counts#post-349745 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:21:16 +0000 raincoaster 349745@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ With a smaller number, the variation between two stats systems is going to be wider. No two stats systems count exactly the same thing.

]]> onfollowingchrist on "Wide disparity in page view counts" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/wide-disparity-in-page-view-counts#post-349556 Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:18:48 +0000 onfollowingchrist 349556@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi,

I posted a shortened url last night, http://bit.ly/VKLs5 (which resolves to http://onfollowingchrist.wordpress.com/2009/06/13/time-for-an-mri/), which according to bit.ly quickly got 10 hits, going to 14 this morning.

Yet WP shows 3 views for this page. I reedited the page a couple of times, NOT via the bit.ly url, but I believe my own navigation does not count toward WP hits.

So even if all of those 3 WP hits are all from outsiders, I don't understand in the wide disparity between 14 and 3.

Thanks,
Paul

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