Hi Alex,

I can't seems to replicate the issue in my local instance as the hits is not increasing drastically when I use youtube block inside my blog post. May I know if the following option from your backend > easyblog > settings > general > hits, http://screencast.com/t/y1T4gpYa4vg is disabled? If yes, perhaps you can try to turn it on so that the hits count will only counted based on the ip address and user session on your site.

Hi Ezrul

Thanks for getting back to me.

Yes I have the hits option on, so I don't understand why this would be happening.

The only way I can think of to show you that the hits are not relevant to the number of visitors to my site is to show you my analytics and the difference between the hits received.

I am currently using my phone so apologies for the screenshots, they might not be the same as you are used to seeing.

As you can see, I had 21 visitors to my site and yet one article has 27 hits and the other has 33 hits. How can you explain this?

Hey Alex,

Google Analytics has it's own algorithm for detecting robots and their visits algorithm excludes these bots. EasyBlog is not an analytical tool and it does not have a sophisticated algorithm for detecting these visits. This is why the hits on the blog is always higher than what it appears on Google Analytics.

Hi Mark

Thanks for getting back to me, from what I understand you are saying that the hits are in fact google bots visiting the page, is this correct? This still does not explain why I would have 19 hits within 1 second of posting the article, and that it had risen to 27 by the time I refreshed the page a few minutes later though surely.

Is there a way of measuring the number of hits that are made by google bots? Or do we know is it 10 per day, 20 per day, any idea?

So for accurate visitor information I should trust google analytic's, not the hits button, is that correct?

Many thanks, as always

Hi

Thanks for your replies, I appreciate the link.

Cheers

You are most welcome Alex.