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I set this blog to private some weeks ago and have not authorized anyone to see it.
Today I find that I have had a visitor - I have StatCounter installed and can see the details, so I know that it is not me.
Apart from that I find that the WordPress Site Stats is recording my own visits.
Could someone please check that this blog is truly private.
Thanks!
The blog I need help with is joniem.wordpress.com.
Sorry - this is the blog with the privacy problem
Your own visits are being tracked by the stats program and Staff of course can access any blog.
Private blogs, which can be viewed only by users chosen by the administrator, now track the page views of all of their users. Traditionally we have omitted the views attributed to a blog’s own users because stats were meant to reflect the activity of the general public. However, this meant that private blogs had no useful stats reports. This change will be especially useful for private blogs that have many users. http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2011/08/18/watch-your-traffic-grow-with-sparklines/
Could someone please check that this blog is truly private.
Volunteers do not have backend access to blogs. I clicked your link and got the "protected blog" display I expected to see.
http://joniem.wordpress.com/ is marked private by its owner. You can confirm this simply by logging out of WordPress.com and approaching your blog while logged out like any stranger would do.
Thanks timethief.
I checked my blog by approaching it on another browser and found it to be private.
I still do not know how a visitor from Russia managed to see it, though.
Probably best to change my password, I guess.
Thanks again.
Yes, I would change my password in a case like this. Choosing and using good passwords
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