High page views for my new blog

1. No one knows exactly what Google will or won’t do, but in my opinion what you describe won’t have any impact on rankings.

2. You could try to find the source of the traffic by examining your log file data which captures requests by bots and other sources that may be automatically excluded by Google Analytics.

Also, double check your set up to make sure you’re not using things like iframes on your site to load other items on your site. Doing so could result in additional pageviews.

3. Similar to item 2. However, trying to stop bad bots is a never ending game. You could look into services like Cloudflare which attempt to do the work for you. If you can identify particularly bad ones that are causing performance problems, you could adjust your .htaccess to block them. You’ll need to balance the effort required with the potential benefit which might be small at this time.

4. If you’re using a plugin to insert the Google Analytics code, look for an option to exclude logged in users or administrators. As long as you’re logged in, your traffic won’t be counted.

Hello Marios,

Thanks a lot for the reply.

Am not really sure what a Log File Data is. All i could find is Error log which did not had any such information. Not could i get any satisfactory result on google for same.

About Iframes, as far as i know am not using any. And more sure even if am using it would not inflate the results by around 40 times. Correct me if am wrong.

Among the top 10 IP address visible to me, almost all have inflated views. So not sure what’s actually wrong.

And about Google Analytics, thanks for that suggestion as well

Log files are named different things on different servers. If you’re on Linux, look for an access.log file. Be warned that these files can contain a lot of data and can be hard to decipher if you’re not used to looking at them, but repeated site hits often stick out. They are plain text files so you can read them using just about any editor.

You’re right that an iframe isn’t likely to inflate pageviews by 40x. Just something I wanted to mention. People do unexpected things sometimes ??

Hey. I tried all sort of stuff before getting back to you again. Tried a fresh wordpress install, tried deactivating plugins, but the issue seems to persist.

Since Google Analytics and even Jetpack Site stats seems to report the correct page views should i ignore the stats by Alexa and Awstats?

This is bothering me more because even my test website which i just use for testing purpose is ranked among top 1.3 million at Alexa.

I now get a feeling it has something to do with the theme or may be something wrong with my browser. Cant seem to figure out.

I don’t know about AWStats, but Alexa uses sampling to come up with its rankings. Their data is only accurate for popular sites where the sample is statistically significant. That is unless they’ve changed since the last time I considered them. If you’ve got good data coming from Google Analytics or JetPack I’d use them and go back to working on a making a good site your users will want to visit.

Sorry I couldn’t help you pinpoint the problem.

Well more than solving the issue, its the effort that matters. That’s the reason i love WordPress. Thanks ??