Category: FAQ

What’s the difference between Views and Visitors?

Views is the number of page hits your site has received. Visitors is the number of unique users that have visited your site. Views should always be greater than Visitors (though there are a few times when this won’t be true on very low usage sites due to how the exclusion code works). The average […]

Why did my views suddenly jump way up today?

There can be many reasons for this, but the most common reason is a botnet has decided to visit your site and we have been unable to filter it out. You usually see your views spike for a few days and then they give up.

When I upgrade or install WP Statistics I get an error message

When I upgrade or install WP Statistics I get an error message like Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING or ‘(   Since WP Statistics 8.0, PHP 5.3 or above has been required. If you are using an older version of PHP it cannot understand the new syntax included in WP Statistics 8.0 […]

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 views and vistors, 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 […]

The GeoIP database isn’t downloading

The GeoIP database isn’t downloading and when I force a download through the settings page I get the following error: “Error downloading GeoIP database from: http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLite2-Country.mmdb.gz – Forbidden” This means that MaxMind has block the IP address of your webserver, this is often the case if it has been blacklisted in the past due to […]

Does WP Statistics support multi-site?

WP Statistics doesn’t officially support multi-site however it does have limited functionally associated with it and should function without issue. However no support is provided at this time. Version 8.8 is the first release that should install, upgrade and remove correctly on mutli-site as well as have some very basic support for the network admin […]