Plugin counts too many visits (old post is way too high)

  • Hi and thanks for this plugin!

    I installed this on my blog but it’s showing odd behaviour I haven’t been able to fix or find anywhere in this forum or the web. Maybe you have an idea on how to deal with it.

    The system is counting way too many visits. At the moment the site has about 1k impressions a day, but the plugin is counting 5-6k or more. This wouldn’t bother me that much since we’re pretty much only using this for toplists (have the top 5 posts as images in the footer), but these are off, too. One very old post that usually doesn’t even get a single view a day always sits at the very top of the leaderboard with hundreds of views. But I couldn’t make out any special circumstances for it.

    It’s this post in particular: https://www.serieslyawesome.tv/tv-aufreger-ard-zeigt-lindenstrasse-von-anfang-an-alle-folgen-stream/

    I tried fiddling with all the plugin settings or setting back data, but it always creepts its way up to the top of the list.

    Any idea on this? ??

    Here’s the debug page: https://imgur.com/wl604h3

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Plugin Author Hector Cabrera

    (@hcabrera)

    Hi @zemase,

    Assuming that this “1k impressions a day” data is coming from Google Analytics or some other analytics tool, this read might explain the difference in views count: Views count different than Jetpack’s?

    TLDR;

    Something on your site is causing this data disparity. You’ll need to troubleshoot your site in depth to find out what that is.

    Thread Starter zemase

    (@zemase)

    Thanks for getting back to me on this so quickly! Kinda was expecting an answer like that but could have been that you had a similar case in the past or just had an idea either way, since we’re not talking “800 vs 700 “miscount” (which would be totally alright) but “500 vs 0” on a daily basis, built around a singular article (or probably more that are the reason for the high overall miscount). ??

    But I’m cleaning out my overall system right now, so maybe this gets sorted out by itself. If I do find the exact reason, I’m going to post it here.

    Have a nice one!

    Plugin Author Hector Cabrera

    (@hcabrera)

    Unrelated notes:

    #1 Your [wpp] shortcode is utterly broken ??

    #2 range=’last3days’ is invalid. That ‘last3days’ option doesn’t exist, see Parameters for a list of valid values for the range parameter.

    Thread Starter zemase

    (@zemase)

    haha, thanks – I was getting rid of an “allow php”-plugin and had to rebuild the shortcode. Unlucky timing with you watching inbetween… ??

    It’s working again (and somehow the “3days” did work as well previously, maybe it jumped to default…?).

    Plugin Author Hector Cabrera

    (@hcabrera)

    3 days has never been a valid value. When the plugin finds that an invalid value is passed to the range parameter it’ll default to last24hours instead. Unless you modified the plugin to add that last3days option?

    It’s not like your list will break because of that, just wanted to point out that that’s not a value that the plugin expects to receive.

    Thread Starter zemase

    (@zemase)

    Yeah, I know, sorry, didn’t want to make any assumption about it, just wanted to let you know that the images were shown before nevertheless (and it did seem to make a difference).

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