Title: WordPress.com stats programme
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# WordPress.com stats programme

 *  [daisy8](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daisy8/)
 * (@daisy8)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpresscom-stats-programme/)
 * Hi,
 * Under the section ‘people clicked on these links on your blog’ – is it possible
   that what is shown there was a click by a search engine spider or similar?
 * With thanks

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 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpresscom-stats-programme/#post-2373198)
 * Yes, it’s possible, but that’s true of any stats program.
 *  Thread Starter [daisy8](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daisy8/)
 * (@daisy8)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpresscom-stats-programme/#post-2373222)
 * Thanks,
 * And here’s me telling the affiliate associates that WordPress.com stats were 
   reliable!
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpresscom-stats-programme/#post-2373223)
 * They are reliable 🙂 That’s a different question, though.
 * Is it possible you’ll take a wrong turn on the way to the coffee shop you visit
   every day? Of course. It’s true of anyone.
 * Is it _likely_? No.
 * It’s _possible_ of any stats program to misinterpret a hit from a spider/search
   engine as real _because_ sometimes those spiders/search engines change their 
   protocols in unexpected and unannounced ways. It doesn’t happen often, and not
   with Google or Yahoo much at all, but it can, and does, happen time and again.

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 * Last reply from: [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpresscom-stats-programme/#post-2373223)
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