What does stats widget measure?

vivianpaige · Member · Jun 4, 2006 at 12:55 am
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I’ve been looking at my stats per the stats widget and the stats from Site Meter. Since I didn’t add Site Meter from day 1 of my blog, there is a difference between the two. Since Site Meter has the ability to adjust for viewers before it was installed, I did that once we got the stats widget in Regulus. Today I noticed that the two are not in sync in terms of total visitors and that the difference between the two seems to be getting larger.

I thought the stats widget showed the number of visitors but I’m beginning to think it is showing page views. Is this correct? (BTW – I checked the FAQ and searched the forum before I posted this.)
drmike · Member · Jun 4, 2006 at 6:25 pm
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Looks like visitors to me as it’s not increasing as I click around my test blog but since the sidebars are cached, there’s no real way for us to tell. :(
vivianpaige · Member · Jun 4, 2006 at 11:48 pm
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Maybe podz can weigh in on this?
drmike · Member · Jun 5, 2006 at 5:33 pm
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Feedback sent. (He’s playing whack a spammer so I’m sure he’ll be around shortly. :)
andy · Member · Jun 5, 2006 at 5:42 pm
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Hi guys. The stats widget gets its numbers from the same database as the Blog Stats admin page graphs. It’s pretty much page views but it will try to exclude logged-in viewers (like yourself) and it is only updated every few minutes.
drmike · Member · Jun 5, 2006 at 5:51 pm
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it is only updated every few minutes.

That must be why it wasn’t updating it when I was poking around my test blog keeping track of it.

Thanks Andy,
-drmike
vivianpaige · Member · Jun 6, 2006 at 12:09 am
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Thanks Andy. I thought it must be page views.

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