Stats Non Displaying Private Posts, Inward Exceptional Lists

For several days now, we've seen diverse reports from anxious Blogger spider web log owners, inwards perceive, in addition to report, the ongoing problem.

If you lot await at the Stats Overview or Posts display, for whatever spider web log alongside whatever popularity, inwards the "Now" or "Day" fourth dimension range, you'll probable run into the good known advice

No stats yet, banking concern fit dorsum later.

When initially reported, this was alone visible inwards the "Now" fourth dimension range. Now, the consequence is seen inwards "Day", in addition to for some, less consistently trafficked blogs, inwards "Week" also. The consequence is visible, consistently, inwards both the Classic GUI (brown / nighttime blueish display), in addition to the New GUI (2011) (brown / orangish on white display).

This work is apparent, for close blogs, inwards the "Posts" tab.
Most blogs alongside consistent traffic volition present this affecting alone the item Posts lists. The "Now" in addition to "Day" Posts lists, every bit noted, present "No stats yet, banking concern fit dorsum later.". The "Week", Month", in addition to "All time" Posts displays present the Posts lists from before the work kickoff occurred. Both the Posts names inwards the lists, in addition to the pageview counts for each postal service listed, are frozen.

This spider web log shows no consequence inwards pageview counts, exterior the Posts item lists. I've carefully examined the graphs for "Now", "Day", "Week", "Month", in addition to "All time", inwards both the Classic in addition to New GUI, for this spider web log - in addition to I don't run into whatever count discrepancies. Your observations may handgrip or disagree - in addition to I await your comments.

We accept a Rollup discussion, inwards Blogger Help Forum.
We accept the latest moving ridge of referer spam; I am today trying to cause upwards one's hear if the ii events are related.

An before outage may hold upwards related to this problem.
We likewise had an interesting 2 lx minutes outage, a calendar week ago, where no Stats information (counts, or details) was available for the previous calendar week - in addition to roughly spider web log owners are wondering if that number is related. We accept no references for the latter episode, every bit nosotros escalated that work inwards existent time, in addition to Blogger Support was able to ready it, immediately.

That work was consummate (as noted, both counts in addition to details were available), it was immediate (it showed on all Stats displays for the previous week, retroactively), in addition to it was total (the immediate nature in addition to consequence on the forums made it an obvious BloggerFire). This problem, according to my observations, is neither.

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(Update 18:00): Blogger Support has fixed this problem.

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Stats Non Displaying Newer Posts, Inward Posts Lists

The problem of concluding week, alongside Stats, was fixed slow yesterday, in addition to our Stats displays 1 time once again are showing Posts pageview counts in addition to enumerating private Posts. Now, nosotros accept a perceived problem, existence reported yesteryear newer spider web log owners.

My Stats display does non demo my newer posts!

This work organization is visually valid - but it's non real. It's virtually mutual alongside blogs that accept precisely over 10 posts, which are owned yesteryear people who are non aware of the Stats display limitations, equally nosotros accept explored.

The Stats Posts displays enumerate the 10 virtually pop posts, for whatever given fourth dimension period. Newer posts volition seldom look inwards the Posts lists, for many blogs.

• The "Posts" lists enumerate private posts, in addition to shows pageview counts for posts viewed inwards unmarried postal service view. Newer posts volition hold upwards displayed inwards their entirety on the principal page, in addition to read equally principal page views.
• The lists demo alone the 10 virtually pop posts. Newer posts, non however indexed yesteryear the search engines, or linked yesteryear your readers, won't accept equally many inlinks - in addition to the postal service page URLs won't instruct out equally much traffic from other blogs in addition to websites.

Owners of newer blogs volition non hold upwards aware of these details - in addition to alongside precisely over 10 posts, may non run across the significance, inwards their Stats displays. These owners volition but see, from fourth dimension to time, posts that don't look inwards the lists.

If you lot hold off at the principal page, for this blog, you'll run across purpose of "Jump Break" inwards my newer posts. Each of these posts, to hold upwards read inwards their entirety, tin alone hold upwards read using the "Read more" link - in addition to from the private postal service page. Look at the address window above.

Since you're viewing these words, this postal service is existence counted inwards Posts, equally a pageview. Thus the Posts lists, for this blog, volition enumerate this post, sooner.

Here, nosotros run across unopen to other practise goodness of using "Jump Break" over other car summarisation techniques. The "Jump Break" links bespeak to the unmarried postal service persuasion of each postal service - in addition to it uses HTML, which makes it search engine friendly. Some previous car summarisation techniques used JavaScript to shroud the total postal service content, preventing search engines from indexing the total postal service text.

Besides encouraging the postal service content to hold upwards read equally a postal service page, the search engines volition index postal service content inwards the postal service pages. The archive retrievals, in addition to principal page, volition alone listing the partial content of each postal service - in addition to search engine striking lists will incorporate to a greater extent than relevant content.

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Jump Break, Primary Page Contents, Together With Search Engines

The articles inwards this blog, which discusses production as well as piece of occupation of Blogger blogs, are written equally posts.

The diverse posts are combined, using embedded links, inwards dissimilar ways. Each novel post appears on the master copy page, equally it is written - as well as the diverse posts, appearing together on the master copy page, create opportunities for confusion, amongst the readers of the blog.

Long ago, the chore of moderating comments was rather depressing to me, equally the focus of many of the comments made me mean value that nobody was truly reading the articles. Maybe, I would write an interesting post virtually URL availability; simply when moderating comments, I would abide by questions virtually posting comments on static pages. Or possibly a post virtually dynamic template concepts would attract complaints virtually referer spam.

Why should I discover my advice, if nobody cares plenty to read the articles as well as comment relevantly?

Just previous to this post, I wrote virtually Stats displays, as well as the contents of the Posts lists.

In the procedure of writing the latter article, I discovered i obscure exercise goodness of using "Jump Break" - as well as how "Jump Break" affects master copy page view, search engine indexing, as well as finally, relevance of comments to post subject.

A dwelling family page, amongst a multifariousness of posts, naturally produces un focused comments.

Why the apparent lack of focus, of the comments? One argue is that many dissimilar posts, published i afterwards the other, appear in sequence, inwards the blogs master copy page.

People volition read the posts - as well as the search engines volition index the posts - using master copy page view. Only afterwards newer posts forcefulness the older posts, i past times one, from master copy page view, volition the private posts convey whatsoever significance - to people or search engines.

Using my event above, as well as looking at my master copy page when this post was new, i would convey establish a post virtually URL availability, published a calendar week afterwards a post virtually posting comments on static pages. By the fourth dimension the search engines indexed the latter post, I would convey published the quondam post. The post virtually URL availability would hold upward visible inwards master copy page view, ahead of the post virtually posting comments on static pages.

Clicking on the link to my blog, attached to a SERP entry referencing static pages, the reader volition read my master copy page from the top, abide by the previously visible post virtually URL availability, as well as the Comments link next the post. Clicking on the showtime Comments link found, the reader volition post his inquiry virtually static pages, against my post virtually URL availability.

Use of Jump Break gives a dwelling family page that tin laissez passer on notice hold upward easily read, pinnacle to bottom.

So, what number does the piece of occupation of "Jump Break" convey on this problem? Using "Jump Break" on all master copy page posts makes it to a greater extent than probable that a potential reader of the blog, next a dwelling family page link to the blog, has to a greater extent than demand chances to encounter all recent posts, amongst their summaries.

The reader is to a greater extent than probable to scan downward the page, encounter a summarised relevant post, click on "Read more" - as well as read the relevant post, on the private post page, earlier commenting.

Use of Jump Break gives to a greater extent than weight to the private posts, equally indexed.

Additionally, amongst the posts summarised inwards master copy page view, the search engines volition abide by less content on the master copy page. The total posts volition hold upward indexed equally private post pages, to a greater extent than than equally business office of the master copy page. This gives to a greater extent than weight to the private posts, as well as less weight to the master copy page.

When indexed using an automatically generated, robust sitemap (2014), the posts volition appear individually inwards SERP lists, decreasing reader master copy page confusion. Each SERP entry, pointing to an private post, volition hold upward to a greater extent than relevantly focused - giving it to a greater extent than weight than a SERP entry, pointing to master copy page view.

Use of Jump Break, consistently, produces a win-win-win scenario.

In summary, careful as well as consistent piece of occupation of "Jump Break" leads to:

• Better focus on private as well as relevant spider web log articles, past times the search engines.
• Less confusion to the blogs readers, when accessing the spider web log using SERP striking lists.
• Less frustration for the spider web log owner, when moderating comments.

It's truly a win-win-win, when used consistently. And, it's as well as thus simple to apply, on a post past times post basis. Check it out, in action.

Referer Spam Does Non Stand Upwards For Existent Traffic

We've been discussing referer spam for many years.

Every week, also many people who wonder

Why doesn't Google seat an terminate to this, for good?

there are occasionally approximately folks who wonder

But is this all bad? Doesn't this aid us inwards our overall Blogger statistics as far as traffic counts go? If so, it's non all bad - for those of us alongside less than ginormous followings.

And both attitudes reverberate people who precisely don't sympathize what it is.

We've already discussed, repeatedly, why Google can't precisely seat a terminate to it, unilaterally.

The latter musing, considering that it may perhaps hold out beneficial to whatever Blogger blogs, is no to a greater extent than valid than the former. Referer spam precisely cannot hold out blocked, because it is non unlike from legitimate traffic.

Stats logs entries, from referer spam, produce non reverberate people viewing the blog.

The numbers reflected inwards our Stats logs produce non stand upwardly for whatever click on the links inwards the Stats display.

Only Stats, which builds its pageview counts too graphs using the Blogger server activeness logs, is discipline to referer spam. All third political party visitor logs too meters, which depend upon snippets or widgets added to the weblog template, are non discipline to this problem.

Don't click on the links - too piece of employment a 3rd political party visitor log for verification.

So, also my facetious advice that y'all simply

Don't click on the links.

comes as facetious advice that you

Get a 3rd political party visitor log / meter, for accurate too comprehensive pageview counts.

The Stats All Fourth Dimension Display, Together With The 2010 Numbers

Occasionally inwards Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken, nosotros run across a curious question.

My weblog Stats display is missing a consummate year.

The employment is truly correct there, inwards front end of all of us - if nosotros look.

Look at the Stats Overview tab, in addition to the graph at the travel past times of the display.

What happened to "2010"?


My suspicion is that it's a deliberate omission, to teach the graph to agree inwards the express horizontal space. How volition they teach "All Time" to agree inwards that space, every bit the Stats display gets older, in addition to "All Time" covers to a greater extent than years?

That beingness the case, it should non live on that much operate to add together a trivial "broken line" symbol inwards the border, betwixt "2009 October" in addition to "2011 March". Look how smoothly the describe of piece of work flows, inwards my graph, correct through 2010. What does your weblog show?

Fast forrad to 2015, in addition to we'll know the answer.

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And inwards 2012, nosotros at ane time run across the same display oddity amongst the numbers from 2011.

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Fluctuations Inwards Reader Action Score Are Normal

One sign of panic, seen regularly inwards keep a proper perspective.

No thing what fourth dimension make yous view, inwards Stats - "Now", "Day", "Week", "Month", or "All time" - yous tin mail away await to encounter fluctuations - peaks together with valleys - inwards pageview counts.

• Time which yous spend, working on the blog.
• Referer spam - attacks together with defenses.
• Reader audience daily activity.
• Reader audience social sharing.

Time which yous spend, working on the blog.

If yous spend fourth dimension working on your blog this week, together with your run is successful, your readers may bask the spider web log to a greater extent than side yesteryear side week. Conversely, if your run is unsuccessful, they may bask it less.

Referer spam - attacks together with defenses.

As Google deals amongst the constant waves of referer spam, you'll encounter a drib inwards counts across all fourth dimension ranges. And equally novel referer spam campaigns come upward online, you'll encounter the counts rise.

Reader audience daily activity.

Unless your spider web log is completely homogenous across all basis broad cultures, you'll conduct hold 1 or ii predominant audiences. Your audiences volition eat, sleep, together with acquire to run - together with all existent life activity volition affect their viewing of your blog.

Reader audience social sharing.

From fourth dimension to time, believe it or not, yous volition write a expert article, which many people volition desire to read. They volition forrard it to their friends, who volition read it together with forrard it to their friends.

This is traffic that yous desire to encourage - it is non hacking, or other malicious activity. Use your visitor logs, position pop articles - together with write to a greater extent than like content.

Understand your reader audience, together with their needs.

It's expert to spotter the counts, understand your audience, together with endure prepared to accept activity if yous encounter a pregnant ascent or autumn - merely don't obsess over the details.

Remember that your readers volition appreciate content, then keep publishing to the blog. And, larn to understand the trends. To avoid confusion, purpose more than 1 visitor log / meter.

And now, get dorsum to run on your blog.

Fluctuations Inwards Stats Pageview Counts As Well As Newer Blogs

Some owners of newer Blogger blogs pass fourth dimension reading their Stats logs, together with worry that their "All time" pageview counts don't ever become upwardly - they become down, too.

Why practice the counts become down? Is at that spot i number, that I tin believe?

They don't sympathize that amongst Stats, yous necessitate to expect for trends - non absolute readings. In the beginning, fluctuations are to a greater extent than obvious, together with trends are less obvious.

Thanks to the referer spam war, together with to normal visitor activity, fifty-fifty the "All time" numbers volition become upwardly together with downward - for newer blogs, which withdraw keep less genuine together with constant visitor traffic. And the constant ascension together with autumn is scary - until yous acquire used to it.

Newer blogs withdraw keep less established readers, which makes spikes inwards both the periodic referer spam, together with normal visitor activity, to a greater extent than visible.

With the iv express fourth dimension ranges (Now, Day, Week, together with Month), the spikes volition "move" inwards together with out of context - together with brand pageview counts inwards these fourth dimension ranges fluctuate. When a spike inwards numbers "moves in" to a fourth dimension range, the pageview counts volition rise, suddenly. When a spike "moves out" of a fourth dimension range, the counts volition fall, simply every bit suddenly.

With newer blogs, the fluctuations exert a "double whammy".

1. The fluctuations are to a greater extent than visible, because overall genuine visitor action is lower. Less readers = less visitor activity.
2. Worrying over the fluctuations takes fourth dimension away from working on the blog. Less fourth dimension working on the spider web log leads to less spider web log content, attracts less novel readers, together with leads to less visitor activity.

More experienced spider web log owners know to use Stats to sentry for trends - non immediate numbers.

The answer hither is simple. Monitor Stats periodically - non constantly. Watch for trends, together with learn how to translate the trends. Spend to a greater extent than fourth dimension working on your blog, because that's where the value of your spider web log lies.

What Does Stats Provide, That 3Rd Political Party Visitor Activeness Meters Cannot Provide?

Not all weblog owners realise how unique Blogger Stats is, inwards its design.

Some owners may idly propose that Stats tin easily endure replaced past times whatsoever tertiary political party visitor action log / meter.

Why bother to role Stats? Since Blogger Stats shows referrer spam, it's pretty useless - exactly role SiteMeter, StatCounter - or Google Analytics.

They receive got no thought why Stats was designed equally it is, nor what information Stats provides, that no competing production tin perhaps provide.

Every improver accessory, such equally whatsoever visitor action counter / log / meter, has to endure manually installed inwards your blog.

Most visitor action counter / log / meter products involve installation.

Simple accessories, which depend upon your visitor clicking on a link, tin endure installed easily - exactly add together a clickable link on your weblog - either inwards a post, or anywhere inwards the trunk of the blog. Visitor logs or meters such equally SiteMeter or StatCounter, inwards lodge to make usable statistics, can't depend upon the weblog readers clicking on a link.

Most such accessories role improver JavaScript code, installed inwards the trunk of the weblog (as an accessory gadget), or inwards the weblog template (installed using "Edit HTML"). With improver code, that references whatsoever external server, the installed location on the weblog page, of the accessory code, is crucial.

• Install the improver at the altitude of the spider web page (or inwards the template code), together with equally your reader loads each page, he / she gets to sentry the page charge pause, equally it waits for a distant accessory server to reply (while recording the visit).
• Install the improver at the bottom of the page, together with whatsoever reader, who closes the display earlier the page finishes loading, volition non endure counted past times Analytics / SiteMeter / StatCounter.

In either case, the page takes longer to load. This causes reader impatience, together with motivates the reader to unopen the display earlier the page finishes loading. The upshot - your weblog gets ane less novel reader.

Most visitor action counter / log / meter products are affected past times filters.

Besides reader impatience causing statistical inaccuracy, all tertiary political party accessories that role JavaScript receive got a minute work - script filtering past times our readers.

Analytics, SiteMeter, together with StatCounter are known to endure explicitly blocked, past times some browser setting or tertiary political party application that may spill out whatsoever given customer computer. Some safety products specifically listing "sitemeter.com" or "statcounter.com" inwards their Block Lists.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 lot of malicious activity, encountered when surfing the web, tin easily endure blocked past times proactive script filtering - exactly allow scripts, from whatsoever given domain, exclusively when explicitly told to make so.

Every reader uses safety accessories in the browser together with on the computer - together with many safety accessories together with settings furnish script filtering. Most safety is at ane time provided equally "deny past times default, allow exclusively on demand".

Most safety products update automatically, equally updates are produced - together with this leads to other problems. Many of our readers, who are concerned amongst security, or who role computers that are good protected, may non endure counted, consistently, past times Analytics, SiteMeter, or StatCounter.

Stats does non involve installation, together with is non affected past times filters.

Blogger Stats avoids the issues of page charge delay induced impatience, together with customer filtering, past times non using JavaScript improver code. Since Stats is a Blogger accessory, it tin think information straight from the access logs produced past times the Blogger servers. Access to server access logs:

• Does non displace page charge delays.
• Is non dependent area to page charge delay impatience.
• Is non dependent area to reader safety settings.
• Does non involve installation of whatsoever accessory, on private blogs.

Besides the problems of our readers visits non beingness counted, nosotros receive got the number of what information is provided, together with for what menses of time. If you lot receive got installed SiteMeter or StatCounter on your blog, expect at the displays provided. Each production volition advert a bound of either 100 or 500 log entries - together with volition display details or statistics based upon the log used.

Many Blogger blogs popular off to a greater extent than than 500 visits inwards a unmarried 24-hour interval - requiring weblog possessor visits to the log website at to the lowest degree daily, or to pay for extra service, to furnish whatsoever benefit. And of course, that log was started exclusively afterward the production was installed.

Blogger Stats, on the other hand, is able to furnish statistics for the electrical current day, week, month, together with for "all time" (starting inwards May 2009, for all blogs inwards existence at that time).

Stats does non discard erstwhile statistics, they exactly extract from the server access logs, for whatsoever fourth dimension arrive at provided.

• All time.
• Last xxx days ("Month").
• Last seven days ("Week").
• Last 24 hours ("Day").
• Last ii hours ("Now").

Any weblog possessor tin consider whatsoever available statistics, at whatsoever time. Stats never has to endure installed, past times whatsoever weblog owners - it is already there.

Stats is vulnerable to bogus action records, created past times spammers.

Unfortunately, the biggest describe of Stats - role of the server access logs to get together the visitor action information - leads to its best known weakness - abuse past times referer spammers, which leads to inflated weblog read counts.

It may assistance to sympathise that referer spam did non outset amongst Stats - nor is referer spam unique to Stats. Referer spam has been roughly always since people published websites, together with displayed a visitor log extract ("My Recent Visitors") to brand their website to a greater extent than interesting to novel readers (The proposition that "This website should endure to a greater extent than interesting to YOU, because it has readers from all over the world!").

Stats, similar every visitor action counter / log / meter product, resets totals.

Besides the line of piece of work organisation of referer spam, nosotros consider diverse evidences of confusion nigh Stats displays.

• "Daily" counter resets that occur during the 24-hour interval - never at midnight.
• The inability to compare special inwards ane display, amongst aggregated counts inwards some other display.
• Inability to display pageview counts for all posts inwards the blog.

All of these limitations are only the direct upshot of how Stats is designed.

Every visitor action counter / log / meter production differs, from every other product.

In reality, both Blogger Stats together with third political party visitor action logs or meters receive got their respective advantages - together with neither pick tin always supervene upon another.

• If you lot desire to consider demographic details nigh some readers of your blog, you lot tin role Analytics, SiteMeter, StatCounter - or whatsoever number of tertiary political party visitor action logs together with meters - afterward the chosen accessory has been installed.
• If you lot desire to consider comprehensive statistics nigh all readers of your weblog - without beingness express past times install fourth dimension or reader safety policy - exclusively Blogger Stats volition assistance you.

Fortunately, all products are complimentary - together with Stats requires no installation. Your Stats information is there, waiting for you lot - on the Blogger dashboard menu.