Front pages count as pageviews, if people land on it, but if they aren’t landing on your front page the most, then it’s still a pageview, just low on your stats. Too many people put all their energy into their front page design instead of on the pages which people arrive the most. Your About Page is critical to explaining who you are and what you do, especially the purpose of your blog. It should NOT be the same as your “home” front page view. It has a purpose so let it serve that purpose.

There are a lot of things to learn, so I’m glad you are really looking at all the statistics and learning how to use them. My work with Woopra is teaching me things I never thought about in the numbers. I’ll be writing more about that there, so come visit me.

As for what Alphainventions are doing, I’m still very leery. There are a lot of complains and while the guy has the best intentions, I would not use it as a resource for stats or traffic building until they have figured out how they are working. That is not a good measure. Go with known metrics and processes to build traffic, like improving your content for keywords and spending time with like-minded communities.

I am still learning how to interpret the WordPress stats – learning how to total up the number of visitors vs number of referral sources vs number of pages viewed.

I have only recently worked out that the home page doesn’t seem to count as a “page view” – I guess because it is the landing page. It’s a shame that I have just worked that out because I had a lot of traffic today that went to the ABOUT page and it is exactly the same as the home page – because I didn’t know to set them up differently. So, I lost the chance to convert some good traffic. Back to the drawing board.

There is a lot of LIY here (Learn It Yourself). We are also doing some work with Alphainventions to build traffic we can understand and interpret.

Thanks for asking the question, Lorelle.

The returning visitors and page views per session stats tell me how captivating the content is and the loyalty factor. It also is a good indicator of use “ability” or can people easily find what they want?