Nice! I didn’t actually know we had access to our author stats, cool. What is the difference between ‘views’ and ‘reads’?
Also, how ‘true’ do you think these numbers are? They seem rather surprisingly high to me, could there just be a bunch of bots racking up numbers?
Hi Oscar, thanks for flagging that bug, I’ll look into it and reply here when it’s fixed.
To answer your other question: The “reads” number should be pretty reliable, we don’t tend to get bots that load the page for long enough to trigger the necessary timer events (or deliberately fake these events). The views number is more likely to be off, as there are some bots that can trigger the page view event.
Nice! I didn’t actually know we had access to our author stats, cool. What is the difference between ‘views’ and ‘reads’? Also, how ‘true’ do you think these numbers are? They seem rather surprisingly high to me, could there just be a bunch of bots racking up numbers?
(answered my own question - ‘read’ means stayed on page >30s).
However, one of my posts has a negative bounce rate, seems like a bug! Or maybe my post was just that engaging ;)
Hi Oscar, thanks for flagging that bug, I’ll look into it and reply here when it’s fixed.
To answer your other question: The “reads” number should be pretty reliable, we don’t tend to get bots that load the page for long enough to trigger the necessary timer events (or deliberately fake these events). The views number is more likely to be off, as there are some bots that can trigger the page view event.