Title: Stat Data
Last modified: April 6, 2017

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# Stat Data

 *  Resolved [DOAADI](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doaadi/)
 * (@doaadi)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stat-data/)
 * I don’t know what title to give this question!
 * I am trialling various stats plugins after the one I’ve used for two years suddenly
   stopped working properly after an update. I really like the appearance of this
   one, but the numbers it is presenting appear to be absolute nonsense.
 * Until the recent problem with my other plugin, both it and Jetpack were recording
   similar data – so let’s therefore assume that Jetpack is a suitable benchmark.
 * Today so far, for example, Jetpack says I have 249 views (my previous plugin 
   would have noted similar and recorded them as visits).
 * Wp Stats has it down as 475 visits (from 174 search engine referrals).
 * I have tried altering some of the settings which, allowing for the poor explanation(
   the manual just repeats what the dashboard says and provides no details) to prevent
   self-referrals, but there is no change.
 * All I want to know is how many visits I am getting, but the numbers don’t stack
   up.
    -  This topic was modified 9 years, 1 month ago by [DOAADI](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doaadi/).

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 *  Thread Starter [DOAADI](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doaadi/)
 * (@doaadi)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stat-data/#post-9001255)
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    -  This reply was modified 9 years, 1 month ago by [DOAADI](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doaadi/).
 *  Plugin Contributor [Greg Ross](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gregross/)
 * (@gregross)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stat-data/#post-9003005)
 * From the FAQ:
 * = I’m using another statistics plugin/service and get different numbers for them,
   why? =
 * Pretty much every plugin/service is going to give you different results for visits
   and visitors, there are several reasons for this:
 * * Web crawler detection
    * Detection method (javascript vs server side PHP) *
   Centralized exclusions
 * Services that use centralized databases, like Google Analytics, for spam and 
   robot detection have better detection than WP Statistics can. The trade off of
   course is relaying on an external service.
 *  Thread Starter [DOAADI](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doaadi/)
 * (@doaadi)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stat-data/#post-9003282)
 * Thanks, Greg.
 * Yes, I realise that there are differences between methods used, but the ones 
   I’m seeing here are massively different, that’s all.
 * Thanks anyway.

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