Greetings,
[Unable to find a way to easily contact the author directly, I’m posting here.]
Here’s the gist: I use Google Analytics, WP Stats, and (because a publisher I work with uses it) just started using ‘hitcounter’.
GA and WP Stats are fairly consistent. Trendlines are roughly the same shape. GA numbers (due to scripting) are always lower than WP Stats. Got it, no drama.
However, hitcounter reports numbers that are orders of magnitude higher, like 60X. A good day for my site is, realistically, 150-200 unique visitors. For hitcounter to claim I’m frequently seeing 3600-3700 in a day is just outrageous. My ego’s not that big<g>.
Can anyone provide insight as to why hitcounter stats are so much higher?
Before, I simply took the newspaper site’s reports of my viewership (my content appears multiple places) as higher because it commanded a bigger audience. Now, I have the ability to stats on a single given site, I’m seeing huge discrepancy.
Thoughts?
]]>I installed the plugin, activated it, changed the settings, but I don’t see something happening. Do I need to enter some php code also?
]]>As far as I understand, this plugin keeps track of how many times a post has been shown, and it won’t differentiate between shows of just the beginning of the post (in a list view) or the full content. (Hint to developers, you’re already differentiating between different viewers reg/unreg/bots, why not also differentiate between type of views short/full?)
Before I realized what the plugin counts and how, I tried to show the tag php userViews() in a page footer widget. In order to make sense, it must be located in a place, which is clearly attributable to a single post. So I believe it needs to be inside the loop.