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All blogs on WordPress.com get our Stats as a free feature. Every time a visitor views a URL on your blog, the web brower loads a small smiley-face image from our stats system. The action is logged and the logs are summarized every few minutes to update the graphs, charts, and lists.
The following are not counted:
- Visits from registered users of the blog when they are not logged in.
- Visits to uploaded documents and files
- Visits from browsers that do not execute javascript or load images.
- GoogleBot and other search engine spiders.
When visit the Stats page in your Dashboard the first item displayed is a graph. The graph displays total views for days, weeks, or months, depending on which tab is selected.
Referrers
The referrers section lists other blogs and web sites that link to your blog. A view is counted as a referrer when a visitor of the other site clicks a link and lands on a URL of your blog.
Top Posts & Pages
This section of stats will list the Posts and Pages which have received the most views. A view is only counted for a post or page when the permalink URL is visited. For example, if a visitor reads a post titled “Hello World” while viewing the home page of your blog, the view will not be counted towards the post, only towards total views.
Search Engine Terms
These are the terms, words, and phrases people use, through various search engines (i.e. Google, Yahoo, Bing), to find posts and pages on your WordPress.com blog. Please note that these do not include the terms which your readers use within your blog’s Search Widget or any other search form on your blog.
Clicks
These are external links that appear on your blog, and are actually clicked by your readers. These may be (but are not limited to):
- Links you add to your post and page content.
- Links placed in comments by your readers.
- Links that appear in your blogroll.
- Links attached to the names of users who comment on your blog.
Blog Stats & Totals
This section provides a welcome, simple overview for your blog, including the total number of views recorded on your blog since it was registered, the specific day when your blog was viewed the most amount of times, and your totals for the current day thus far. The Totals section also provides some summary of your blog’s content, including totals for posts, comments, categories, and tags. This particular information is useful in that it may help you find any correlation between traffic, comments and amount of content currently on your blog, as well as the amount of categories and tags used.
Spam
The total number of spam comments blocked by Akismet, our anti-spam service.
Summary Tables
In addition to the numbers and figures provided on your primary stats panel, you can also view your blog’s Summary Tables, which provide a comprehensive overview of your blog’s stats. Here, you can view your total views for all months and years since your blog has been registered. You can review your daily averages throughout those months and years, as well. If you wish to obtain more of a recent snapshot of your blog, check out the Recent Weeks section, which will display the totals, averages, and percentage changes of the last seven weeks.
To read more about the specific mathematics involved, refer to the About the Match section within your Summary Tables panel.
Incoming Links
This section of stats is pulled from Google Blog Search to display URLs around the Internet linking to your blog. We do not control these links.
Additional Info
Why don’t post/page views add up to total views?
Post/page views are included in total views, but there are many views to your site that are not a post or page URL. The front pages, category/tag/date/author archives, and searches are all examples of other views that only count towards total views.
Can I track other details?
WordPress.com stats do not track unique visitors, countries, IP addresses, or other details.
Why doesn’t the number of referrers add up to the number of total views?
Not all visitors will land on your blog by clicking a link somewhere else. Visitors may type your URL directly into the web browser, click a link in an email, or click a link in another application which then loads the browser. Visitors that come from search engines will also not be counted as referrers because they’ll be listed in the search engine terms.
Can I get stats for my self-hosted WordPress.org blog?
Yes, install the WordPress.com Stats plugin.
Can I use Google Analytics?
No, Google Analytics cannot be used on WordPress.com blogs at this time.
Can I display a hit/view counter on my blog?
Yes, use the Blog Stats Widget.
Last modified: August 31, 2009
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