Stats - recent drop in views - any idea why?

beardedgit

Any idea why the stats have nosedived in the last few days? At first I thought it was due to the turn of the year but stats for previous year-turns don't show this pattern. Am I the only one with a dip like this or are other users finding a similar drop?

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zacHer0

Just checked a half dozen sites, no similar drop off

beardedgit

Thanks for the checks, Zac.

Further info:

Most of my SM hits (~20k/day?) come from my WP blog, but ironically my blog stats are UP for the period that SM stats are down

beardedgit

OK, so it stayed inexplicably low for a month and now it's gone up to bizarre levels dunno

Ferguson

Mine seems to be following what I would expect over that period. Did you change anything, e.g. from one style gallery to another? I don't know if there's clearly documented but I think (for example) collage counts each image as a view, whereas the smugmug thumbs gallery which is somewhat similar does not.

I keep Google ANalytics on as well, that way I've got something to compare against (admittedly a confusing something since these are image views and google is page views (etc)).

Can you dig in and see if the increase/decrease is in an specific place/gallery/referrer?

But to the extent a negative correlation is helpful, I saw nothing odd in that time on mine. Mine has tracked to events with more/less interest.