Visitor and pageview count without cookie

Hey Daniel,

The plugin checks the document.referer value which will contain the page you were coming from if clicking a link or reloading a page and staying in the same browser tab. Using this value the plugin can determine the following 2 things:

– Whether the visitor is new or coming from another page on the website (unique visitor).
– Whether the visitors is coming from the same page (unique pageview).

That’s where the discrepancy is coming from, without using any cookies.

Hope that helps. If not, let us know please.

One thing to add is that it looks like the second thing isn’t working reliably for you, or is it? If you’re on any page on your website and then refresh that page, the pageview should show no additional visitors but just one additional pageview. Can you confirm whether that is the case please?

Hey Danny,

thanks for the clarification! And you’re right: I’ve just tested this and I get an additional visitor+pageview hit whenever I reload a specific page.

So that explains why both columns show the same count in the pages table – which confused me as this is not reflected in the chart and total counts, where they show different values.

I have uploaded a screenshot of my analytics dashboard here.

Let me know how I can help if you’d like to troubleshoot this.

Thanks for the screenshot. We’re look into this.

It seems to be visitors that go from a homepage or category page to a post page.
Only the posts are shown in the table at the bottom at this time.

We will look into adding the homage there as well, maybe even category pages.

Hope that helps. If you have any questions, please let me know!