WordPress is telling me that today I have 100 views… but that I have only had one visitor… yet somehow I have received comments form a bunch of different people… and according to the same stat page that is telling me I have had one visitor and 100 views, I have gotten those views from the following countries:
| Country | Views |
|---|---|
 United States |
52 |
 Namibia |
23 |
 Canada |
20 |
 United Kingdom |
2 |
 Romania |
2 |
 Austria |
1 |
So… uh… my one visitor must have a Tardis… or at least a very fast jet… or multiple personality disorder… or something…
Pouring My Art Out 
Most visited page in anybody’s blog … stat page
I suck at math but I do like my stats…
One Day I had 75 views from Trinidad and Tobago. Hmmm. very strange.
I get that now and then… some huge number of views from some random place. Once it was from Sweden… right after I did a really weird post about something. I wondered if maybe the Swedes were just into that. But it might just be because on guy in Tobago found your blog and looked at a bunch of posts.
Someone may have been rally bored or hungry? Since I write about food. I guess.
I can see how people on small islands could get bored and hungry.
Never thought of that! Ha!HA! HAH!
Just popped into my head.
Really? 23 views?
well that was really early this morning
Hey, we’re the minions! We don’t count as visitors, cause we practically live here.
You have a special place in my blog and in my heart…
But not in your stats, apparently.
wordpress hates me, and therefore you also…
Yes, I think they do, they just express it in a different way.
right
I’m don’t know much about this, but I always thought it had something to do with how they view it in the reader, or rss feed, or email or whatever. So they are a visitor if they actually have to come here to read it. I don’t know if I’m right or not, or even close, but it makes some sort of sense.
I don’t have answers… I am a computer moron… I just like asking questions… and messing with wordpress…
I believe you are correct. Views done in a reader count as views but not as visits.since they don’t access the site. Of course, in the WP reader you have to go to Arts site to read beyond the first line or two, but that may not be the case on other readers or RSS feeds of his blog. I like when I have 10 views between two visitors in “views by country” with two flags showing but only one visitor being credited with all ten views on the bar chart. Go figure. Left hand/right hand, huh?
Do not question the ways of the mysterious overlords…
Exactly what I said in my post way back when I first started: http://cordeliasmomstill.com/2013/10/22/statistics-dont-lie-or-do-they/
Of course, I was pretty naïve then. Now I really don’t care (much).
wheeeeeeeeeeeee
Oh oh oh I know! It’s definitley The Doctor, Clara and Mr. Pink, they gave copies of some of them to their students to write essays about them (I know, Mr Pink is a maths teacher, but hey-there’s numbers in everything, right?) I’m behind 2 episodes so no spoilers please. I’m also behind on reading everyone’s posts, I sure could use the Tardis myself. I can’t wait to watch the one about your mysterious stats… 🙂
Obviously you know much more about what is going on and you wish to distract us from figuring it out…
Yeah, right, and you didn’t reply to my comment so fast because you were zooming around with The Doctor. 😉 No, it can’t be that…
Well it could be… but it might not be…
In my sci-fi series… in which the me from another dimension is the hero… I do end up with a way to travel to any dimension… which is just about the same as having a Tardis…
i like all the above….
above my head?
Me too. Only one visitor but a lot of view from 13 different countries. My one visitor is apparently quite the globetrotter. But, alas, I only have 86 views. *sigh*
I think Santa Clause is catching up on his blog reading…
This is happening to me right now. Its a glitch in the Matrix. An agent must be near. seriously tho, it is happening to me.
Somewhere out there there is one guy who is really busy reading all the blogs in the world at once… multiple times…
Reblogged this on Survivor and commented:
Good….!
This has happened to me before, also…Maybe not quite so very many views…I am not so lucky! But, I certainly have had stats that seemed to be contradictory to one another. Let me know if you ever get a satisfactory answer on that one.
I need to tread carefully… I cannot afford to anger the wordpress overlords… they still haven’t really forgiven me for my prank where I typed up a fake spam paragraph and copied and pasted it into hundreds of random blogs… I got shut down for 5 days for that joke…
Fairly simple, really. Everything is working but the individual people count. Mystery solved. : )
Well that shoots down my theory about the whole thing being run by not-too-bright aliens…
It was me! I’m magical that way.
It takes me like a week to 100 views. Narf!
Well I post like two to five times a day… and most of them require almost no thought to enjoy…
Naaaaarf!
ummmmmm…..
S’only narf.
sho nuff ly nar
Hey Trent, How’s it goin’?
Yeah, Trent, how the heck is it going?
He’s almost as invisible as I am.
but he did make me a Lego mural for my art contest…
I’m good Dan, how are you? Haven’t seen you about much.
I only post here about once a week and have been falling behind the last couple of times. I don’t post much on PMAO unless I feel like playing around or he has an interesting topic. Commenting there just inundates my email too much and then I can always get into one of those round-robins with him that though fun can suck me into investing too much time that I should be devoting to other things. If I comment on his site now just to stay in touch I usually find a post with very low participation.
Good to hear from you. I will be doing something different with what may be my next post if things don’t change. I want to add some audio to it. I’ve experienced it on other sites but don’t know how or if I can do it on WP. I have found a work-around that unfortunately requires the active cooperation of the reader. The post will work well with out it but I think it will really add something.
Well, I have a job today and need to be there at 9A so I have to get a move on. Later.
intriguing…
15 hours ago? After I went to work I guess. Yes, and intrinsically true too. When you have a topic that goes viral my email explodes. One little bitty “huh, word, yeah, true dat, etc. and my mail is off to the races and I can’t keep up with the comments. Then too, I write these “white paper” posts that I can’t seem to find a way around and I spend DAYS researching and writing them, especially if I search out images. I’m usually quite pleased with them when done and wouldn’t have written them any other way but WHEW! I do miss the round-robins though, and you, and Julie, and El Norte, and Trent, et al. I just needed to balance things out between being a blogger, a working stiff, and managing my personal existence and I still don’t have a handle on it yet. The blog is kind of like a book for me. I have to write what has to be written and can’t stop until that happens, Sometimes I hit a wall, leave it in draft and begin an entirely new post about something else rather than “just finish” it. So many words; so little time.
My blog is fun for me, but I miss other fun and I really hate having to trade off one fun for the other. Then again, perhaps “intriguing” was in reference to the proposed accompanying audio track and not my reasons for being absent from your blog so much. If that is the case, in the immortal words of Miss Emily Lutilla, “Never mind.” 🙂
Feel free to delete the offending comment. I wouldn’t want to spread dissension among the the other minions in absentia.
I think I was just being silly… or facetious… but I feel your pain. My whole life is like that, a crack squirrel infested all-art-side-of-the-brain whirlwind. If I’m bluffing, I’m not writing my books, if I’m playing guitar, I’m not carving a tiki. Painting, drawing, it all fights for space in my brain and time I might no longer have.
My God man. It’s not even 6AM yet. I’m not at all the early riser. It’s such a lovely, quite time of day but I can’t be up ’till 3A banging a key board and do that too. Choices.
I gotta get the kid ready for school.
Make the ‘quiet’ time of day, though it can be quite the time of day also.
or both
I’m going to try knocking out that post today. It’s not really difficult coming up with the words; it’s giving it appeal to both sexes though aimed at husbands from an advisory standpoint. I just needed a break from all the research and image laden posts for a change and this felt like fun.
Let the balls fall where they may… uh… so to speak…
I haven’t posted in near two months, I figure. Too much to do. But I will always post on Art’s blog, because there’s a bunch of good creative people thereabouts, and a ringleader who makes it all go. I love the back and forth, it’s awesome.
I’ll look out for your post. I always say that, and then end up vanishing for a couple of weeks, but I’ll really look for it. Curious to see how the audio piece works.
I am curious to see how anything works.
Narf!
whelpf
This is not a word.
All words were just funny sounds until people decided to accept them as substitutes for other things…
What does the word “wanker” say to you?
I have been to England… I have English relatives… I watch the BBC… I know what it means
Just checking.
I am a cultured world traveler…
I’m an uncultured slob… what’s your point?
I didn’t really have one
fiddling about