I am using v1.1.1 of the WordPress.com stats plugin. Since I installed it (on the 30th of January), the statistics I see on wordpress.com have been odd, to say the least.<\/p>\n
I realise that what I see on wordpress.com stats does not include my own page views, so those stats ought to be lower than the total views.<\/p>\n
Here are the stats thus-far for February via wordpress.com: http:\/\/barrdear.com\/john\/stuff\/wordpress_stats.jpg<\/p>\n
Here are the stats for the same period from my host: http:\/\/barrdear.com\/john\/stuff\/site_stats.jpg<\/p>\n
For example, wordpress.com thinks that my “Beaten to the punch” post has seen 13 hits, but my host reports 3 views (1 entry, 1 exit).<\/p>\n
What appears (to me) to be happening is that wordpress.com is recording hits to several posts against just one post.<\/p>\n
As another example, my site gets aggregated here: http:\/\/ozpolitics.info\/feeds. When someone clicks on the link on that page, they come through to the post-specific page on my site. WordPress.com stats are recognising ozpolitics.info\/feeds as the referrer, but not the post-specific page as a hit. Here is a specific example: http:\/\/barrdear.com\/john\/stuff\/stat_inconsistency.jpg<\/p>\n
Notice that yesterday I got two referrals from ozpolitics.info\/feeds. I only had two articles listed on the ozpolitics feed yesterday: “Idle Curiosity” and “Sweating the small stuff”, neither of which is listed as getting a hit in yesterday’s posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-693519","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-stats"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/693519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/693519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}