Title: [Plugin: WordPress.com Stats] shows unaccounted and inflated data
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: WordPress.com Stats] shows unaccounted and inflated data

 *  [juancamiloestela-1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/juancamiloestela-1/)
 * (@juancamiloestela-1)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpresscom-stats-shows-inflated-data/)
 * Hello guys,
    I have had my blog (2.9) working for over 4 months now with the 
   WordPress Stats plugin. The data collected shows a steady trend for hits per 
   day. I’ve had 2 peaks of abnormal traffic in which it increased in about 900%.
   However this increase was supported by an increase in referers to my site. Last
   week I had to install a second version of my blog (identical copy but running
   wp 3.0) under a new domain due to legal issues with my first blog’s name. Both
   have been working correctly and both are using the same api key for wordpress
   stats. I thought this could be a good thing because I could keep the traffic 
   data collected on my first blog.For the past week everything has worked correctly
   but today I noticed a very large peak in traffic so very excited I turned over
   to see the referers and see who linked to my site but to my surprise there where
   only 3 referers each one sending at most 5 visitors…. I know this could be explained
   with direct traffic. The thing is that I find it very difficult for a site like
   mine that has no advertising to increase direct traffic count by thousands in
   one day. Anyone care to shed some light on this subject? thanks a lot

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 *  [siqueira](https://wordpress.org/support/users/siqueira/)
 * (@siqueira)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpresscom-stats-shows-inflated-data/#post-1552088)
 * Recently WP Stats plugin began duplicating visits and page views. This is evident
   by comparing page views plugins statistics with SiteMeter statistics.
    WP Stats:
   06/24: 1936 – 06/25: 1299 – 06/26: 1166 – 06/27: 1908 SiteMeter: 06/24: 1019 –
   06/25: 720 – 06/26: 580 – 06/27: 993
 * Anyone could explain? Thanks

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 * Last activity: [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpresscom-stats-shows-inflated-data/#post-1552088)
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