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1. ahankwilliamsjournal
   Member
   Oct 6, 2012, 8:01 PM

   Unexplained unusual increase in visitors for one day only. Not covered in stats page.
   Blog url: http://ahankwilliamsjournal.wordpress.com/

2. timethief
   Member
   Oct 6, 2012, 8:50 PM

   Perhaps a visitor submitted a post to Reddit or stumbleupon or pinterest.

3. timethief
   Member
   Oct 6, 2012, 8:53 PM

   Or perhaps not ...

   Not covered in stats page.

   Well, see here for what's not recorded http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/

   Be aware that likes and shares numbers 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. Those who have username accounts only but no blog can become followers and click the "like" and/or "share" buttons. Those who do not have accounts cannot use the like button.
   http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/07/09/wordpress-followers-likes-and-stats/

   Note: To compel readers to click into my blog to read the full post thereby creating a page view stat, I have set my RSS Feed for posts to “summary” on this page > Settings > Reading

4. ahankwilliamsjournal
   Member
   Oct 10, 2012, 1:46 PM

   Thanks.
   I guess this explains the anomaly of those rare unexplained spikes.
   Not a computer glitch or some kind of spam attack.
   John

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