Someone seems to be using or spoofing my wordpress.com ID

I’m not sure I understand. WordPress.com Stats do not display WordPress.com IDs anywhere.

Could you tell me more about what you see when visiting your stats page?

Thanks!

Hey Jeremy, sure!

On my WP.com Stats page (clicked through from Jetpack Stats), under Authors, I see my own WP.com user ID, and alongside that, I see a number of views, none of which I made. For example (this is a low-traffic site), one one day I had 2 views, one from France and one from Italy. One was referred by one of those referral-spam sites (spambots?), which I’ll get rid of using another plug-in for that purpose, and the other was just a weird phantom view associated with “me” as an author.

Perhaps this is a referral-spam issue. Perhaps every view from one of those shows up as a view from “me.” And perhaps those views that don’t list a referrer are also some kind of similar visit?

Oh, I see. That number of views is actually not views you made, but views visitors made to posts you wrote.

When you’re logged in to your account, your own visits are actually not counted at all by default. If you’d like to change that default behaviour, you can go to Jetpack > Stats > Configure in your dashboard.

I hope this clarifies things a bit.

Ah, thank you!

That number of views is actually not views you made, but views visitors made to posts you wrote.

I was hoping that something like that was the case!

Best’

David