Title: Inflated numbers
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Inflated numbers

 *  Resolved [Liv21s](https://wordpress.org/support/users/liv21s/)
 * (@liv21s)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/inflated-numbers/)
 * I’m getting a HUGE number of visitors and views on my main dashboard. On my mobile
   app it shows the correct lower amounts but online it shows hundreds.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-statistics/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-statistics/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Greg Ross](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gregross/)
 * (@gregross)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/inflated-numbers/#post-6050079)
 * We have no mobile app so I’m not sure to what you are referring.
 *  Thread Starter [Liv21s](https://wordpress.org/support/users/liv21s/)
 * (@liv21s)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/inflated-numbers/#post-6050083)
 * Correct. My mobile app has the correct numbers but my plug in in WordPress has
   HUGE numbers
 *  Plugin Contributor [Greg Ross](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gregross/)
 * (@gregross)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/inflated-numbers/#post-6050109)
 * I must be missing something here, I don’t know what mobile app your using as 
   we don’t provide one. If your using another stats plugin (maybe Google Analytics?)
   and are using their mobile app then perhaps your seeing the difference between
   how they record hits and how WP Statistics does.
 *  Thread Starter [Liv21s](https://wordpress.org/support/users/liv21s/)
 * (@liv21s)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/inflated-numbers/#post-6050125)
 * I’m sorry let me break it down and clarify..my mobile app (as in not y’all’s 
   don’t worry about it) has the correct numbers.
    I’m only using y’all’s plug in
   I believe. The number on my dash oars under quick stats shows highly inflated
   info. I’ve spoken to WordPress support on a different matter when this came up.
   They said to contact yall to see why this numbers were so high. As the numbers
   are generated through y’all’s plug in.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Greg Ross](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gregross/)
 * (@gregross)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/inflated-numbers/#post-6050145)
 * Your mobile app must be using different stats (maybe JetPack?).
 * Anyway, in the end the following FAQ question covers the difference between us
   and other stats packages:
 * I’m using another statistics plugin/service and get different numbers for them,
   why?
 * Pretty much every plugin/service is going to give you different results for visits
   and vistors, there are several reasons for this:
    •Web crawler detection •Detection
   method (javascript vs server side PHP) •Centralized exclusions
 * Services that use centralized databases, like Google Analytics, for spam and 
   robot detection have better detection than WP Statistics can. The trade off of
   course is relaying on an external service.

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 * Last reply from: [Greg Ross](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gregross/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/inflated-numbers/#post-6050145)
 * Status: resolved