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@arnee I think multiple sub-sitemap idea is great especially for blogs with huge number of posts. But is it a good idea to create sitemaps for every month? Wouldn’t year be a more practical baseline? Let me know your thoughts on this.

As an example, my blog is over 6 years old. The number of monthly sitemaps is around 60. Few of these sitemaps just has just 1 or 2 post. So maybe year is a better option?

@berserk77 Did you read Arnee’s reply properly? He said it could take around 2 weeks for the new sub-sitemaps to be indexed by Google. Existing crawled URL’s won’t be removed. So just wait.

I am using the plugin Jetpack Post Views and it seems to be working fine. It integrates with the Jetpack stats plugin so the data returned is correct. No extra CPU or RAM usage needed as it does not have its own logic. And it also has a widget included.

Yes, I was looking to add a ‘Top 10 posts for the week’ page on my blog but was shocked to find the data to be absolutely random. Any ideas why this might be happening? I don’t think it bot-calls would affect this so much?

Ok one final update. I changed the Minify setting from “Default (blocking)” to “Non-blocking using async” and now PageSpeed doesn’t complain about any JS file (https://imgur.com/RoOjDw7). There is still 1 CSS file but it is shown as green so not a problem. Score has improved from 81 to 87. PostRatings is working fine.

Yes it seems in manual setting the JS and CSS files need to be added manually. I did that using Help wizard of the plugin and now as per PageSpeed there are only two files which are above-fold: 1 JS and 1 CSS. I haven’t added the postratings-js.js file and rating is working fine.

I added postratings-js.js file to the Minify js ignore list as shown here: https://imgur.com/l1SAn0s Also, changed the Minify mode from ‘Auto’ to ‘Manual’ in W3TC general settings so that it will pick the manual settings.

Now it seems the ratings are working fine on all posts even after refresh. Try this out Wes and let me know how it goes.

By the way, this link seems to have a nice W3TC configuration tutorial. I haven’t tried it yet… will do it on my local config to see if it works.

Hi Wes,
Yes, the problem is still not resolved. I checked my ratings data and there have been only 3 ratings in past few days. Usually I get 6-8 ratings everyday on various posts.

It seems to work intermittently but more often than not it fails so it does seem to be cache issue. Maybe there is some js file that needs to be put in the Minify exception list? Lester, please help..

Hmm… probably something wrong at my end.

Hmm… probably something wrong at my end.

Oh I don’t understand. Is it something to do with cache? I am using W3 Total Cache. Just re-opened my browser and cleared all cache and tried again. Still the same issue. I opened a completely different post and it worked… but I refreshed it and again it is not working. It looks like this: https://imgur.com/HdCjNsN

Can you try checking different posts and refreshing. Just hovering over the stars should show up the problem.

Hi Chester,

I have chosen stars_crystal and Max Rating is set to 5. I deactivated and activated again. But still didn’t work.

You can check the issue here: https://www.abhiguitar.com/2012/04/28/guitar-chords-pani-da-rang-vicky-donor/

check this out:
https://abhinavsonkar.com/stats.jpg

Doesn’t give a nice picture, isn’t it?! Though that’s not the actual case with my blog.

By the way, check out Woopra, seems good especially for real-time stats.

anathema23, yes the problem hasn’t been completely solved yet. The stats are still not perfect and way off the mark. I have emailed the author again about the problem. Lets see. For now, I will look into the cystats plugin you suggested.

I think there is nothing wrong with the plugin and if there was anything it is fixed. Just ensure that you have done the following things correctly:

• The plugin is installed and is tracking data for the correct domain. If it isn’t reactivate the plugin and renter your key.
• Make sure the header.php file contains this line:
  <meta name="generator" content="WordPress <?php bloginfo('version'); ?>" /> <!-- leave this for stats -->
• Ensure the footer.php file contains this line before </body> tag:
  <?php wp_footer(); ?>

The plugin should work properly if you take care of the above things.

By the way, I had a reply from the author saying he doesn’t provide support through e-mail and that the plugin is working fine as of now. So all of you who are facing problems with this plugin, check your installation and the above points again.