views vs visitors

isithealthysite · Member · Jun 18, 2016 at 5:38 pm
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whats the difference between views and visitors

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kashmirilahsun · Member · Jun 18, 2016 at 6:04 pm
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Views refer to the page views whereas visitors are the number of people visited on your website. One visitor can view more than one page, so views will be always greater than visitors.
timethief · Member · Jun 18, 2016 at 6:48 pm
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For those who use tag search rather than posting new threads.

All support docs are at https://support.wordpress.com/
Type views and visitors into the search box and click
https://en.support.wordpress.com/?s=views+and+visitors
results https://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/
Click that links and locate views and visitors at https://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/#views-and-visitors

Do note that our stats are not real time stats, so both the views and viewers and views by country https://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/#views-by-country take hours to update.

Our stats are page view stats. If I visit your blog and click into 10 posts that will be recorded as 1 visitor and 10 page views. But please do not assume that everyone who clicks a follow, like, share, reblog or comment link actually reads the post on your blog because odds are they may not.

Follow, like, share, reblog or comment clicks are not page views. In fact, follows, likes, shares, comments and reblogs are completely misleading when you are talking about page view stats.

Your followers and anyone with a WordPress.com/Gravatar account who is logged into WordPress.com can “follow” your blog, “like”, “share” and “reblog” your posts and “comment” in several locations such as the Reader, without ever clicking into your blog and creating a single page view stat. Subscribers control how frequently they receive your posts (instantly, daily, weekly) and can comment without clicking into the blog.

Logged in visitors using a mobile can read the full post without creating a page view stat. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/wordpresscom-reader-show-full-text?replies=31#post-1373606

You can control the length of the entry sent out on your RSS feed here Dashboard > Settings > Reading. Choose the “summary” setting for your RSS feed rather than to “full text”. That will compel followers who are not using mobiles to click into the blog to read the full post which will create a page view stat.

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