Andy Skelton

ronaldb73: your question does not need to be asked twice.

The Stats plugin was updated soon after your post. It should provide better reports in version 1.5.

COMBINE is not available. That would mean summarizing two blogs into one and we don’t offer that.

REPLACE is what you want, cannolo. It doesn’t delete anything. It just makes your current blog replace the old one as the owner of the records.

There is nothing wrong with your plugin. Read the news about why we had to update the plugin.

Since we moved your stats into your time zone, your “midnight” is now in the right place. If your numbers went down today, it’s because you live in the western hemisphere. Those hits didn’t disappear. They shifted back into “yesterday” where they actually occurred.

Is that your host’s way of recommending a caching plugin? 🙂

The WordPress.com Stats plugin aims to be as useful as possible while remaining as simple as possible (and free) so we decided not to count visits or visitors. MarkDK, it says “views” so it means “views” and not something else. I see no reason for confusing it with “visits”. If you can show me where the plugin gave you the idea that “views” might mean “visits” I’ll fix it.

If you look closely, there is no such real thing as a view or a visit or a visitor in the data we record. These are all made-up terms we use to describe technical events as though they were the real human events which they are designed represent. To be technically accurate, the plugin would say “script executions” instead of “views”, but that would not satisfy most users.

Basically, a view is counted when a browser displays a page and executes a script embedded in the page. There are failures, exceptions, and duplicates. There are many subtle technical factors that result in a thing being counted or not and the factors change with the internet ecosystem. I will not attempt to explain them further. If you are interested, you should learn the ins and outs of various browsers and read the stats javascript code.

The hostname is stats.wordpress.com and the IPs are subject to change. A DNS lookup will find them. But I’d move to a host that does not restrict your connections.