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1. zgates
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I've tried CyStats, Statpress, and Wordpress.com Stats (currently using Statpress), and I'm starting to get the idea that I'm getting underreported visits.

   An article of mine got a heavy bump from Reddit, with (when I checked) 624 upvotes so far, plus some Diggs. All told, I'm getting reported maybe 200 visits since it went up yesterday. I realize people will Digg and upvote things without reading, but people also read stuff without voting, so that doesn't seem likely.

   What gives? I have WP Super Cache going. Is it possible that this is screwing things up for me? Maybe it's not reporting times the cached page is getting loaded?

2. Otto42
   Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   WordPress.com stats works perfectly fine with caching. The others I've not used.

   However, it does depend on Javascript being enabled.

3. zgates
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hm. Any idea what could be causing this, then? I cannot imagine that for all the attention my post got, I'm netting so few actual visits and pageviews.

4. Otto42
   Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Well, with the WP.com stats, the stats from "today" are not spot on accurate in real-time or anything. You have to wait a day before the numbers increase.

   If you want real-time stats, use Woopra.

5. zgates
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Interesting. I like. Thank ya!

6. lfaber
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Otto42 --- RE your comment: "However, it does depend on Javascript being enabled." Where would one enable Javascript? On my host's server?

   L

7. Otto42
   Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Javascript being enabled on your user's browser. If they have turned off javascript, then they won't show up in your stats.

8. mikedeezy33
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   I have tried Wassup, Statpress, and CyStats, to the point where I have had all of them on the same site. I have done some detailed research into their tracking. The results are disappointing. Both Wassup and StatPress get about the same results, but for some reason they miss pages. The annoying part is that Wassup and StatPress miss the first page a user lands on... A LOT. This is the most important page! It has the external referrer!

9. stoopid
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   I can confirm this for statpress at least. It doesn't report all uniques and the refer(r)er logs are way off. It logs about 1 of 25 uniques for me, which is just very improbable.

   Yes, I know people can set their referrer to anything they like, but considering that most people don't have a clue what a referrer is, this ratio doesn't make any sense at all.

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