Title: Statistics – basic advice needed
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# Statistics – basic advice needed

 *  [Tim Foxley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tim-foxley/)
 * (@tim-foxley)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/statistics-basic-advice-needed/)
 * Hi.
 * I am after some basic guidance on how to change the format of statistics on my
   blog and how the concept works.
    I have been running a blog for nearly four years.
   The statistics format I had at the beginning I had been very happy with. I am
   not quite sure what type it was or whether it came preloaded when I started my
   blog. It look a little like the Jet Pack stats system. At some point this year
   this stats system “updated” (I am becoming a little suspicious of this word in
   the context of computers – it often means “complete change”) and changed the 
   way it presented info and what info it would show. I was invited to accept this
   upgrade. Because I had the old stats link saved on my browser I stayed with the
   older format – it had what I wanted.
 * WordPress invited me regularly to change to the new upgrade: frequently, when
   I logged on to see my stats, I was offered a feedback questionnaire “why are 
   you continuing with the old system” with multiple choice answers offered, eg 
   a) it is easier, b) I am used to it, c) it is less confusing, etc, etc – I cannot
   remember it exactly.
    A few days ago I gave in to the nagging, deleted my old
   stats link and went with the upgraded version only to realise, almost immediately,
   that this was the wrong decision. I cannot now, it seems, interrogate any data,
   historic or current, in depth. Stats for “days” only go back a month’s worth,“
   weeks” only let me look at three months of stats, “months” only let me look back
   11 months. The “years” section only gives me one lump sum total for each year.
   I really miss not having the monthly and yearly averages. The new “insights” 
   section tells me nothing that I want to know and the extremely helpful “summary”,
   which gave me totals for every single month for the last four years and gave 
   me the performance and averages for weeks, months and years, seems to have vanished
   forever. Of course, I might well have missed this info – its there but I haven’t
   found it yet – but I don’t think so. Happy to be corrected, however!
 * Questions:
 * How can I reset this and go back to the older stats version – is it possible 
   to return to the old ways?! If I was able to go back, have I lost any stats?
 * But also – I hadn’t realised there were so many different “plug ins” for counting
   statistics, perhaps it is time to change.
 * If I wanted to change: can I have 2 or 3 different stat counting plug-ins so 
   I can compare them? Do you have any sense of which plug in would give me all 
   the weeks, months and years data and averages that I want?
 * Where do old stats go to die? Are they held somewhere? Do some old stats get 
   lost for good if I change over to a system that doesn’t count them? Should I 
   be saving the raw data myself – how would I do that? How can I get and keep all
   those day, week, month and year stats and summaries that I used to have?
 * Very grateful for any thoughts
 * Cheers
 * Tim

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 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/statistics-basic-advice-needed/#post-6510244)
 * Hi Tim, if this is regarding the Jetpack plugin then I recommend you post this
   here: [https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/jetpack#postform](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/jetpack#postform)
 * So that the plugin developers can see your issue.

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