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I'm confused by the stats for post views. In the manage section of my account, my posts are showing several thousand views. In my Google Analytics account, I'm only seeing 100+ visitors.

Why the discrepancy? Do you calculate views differently than Google?

Thanks,
Ryan

First of all, when people read your posts through the Posterous reader that counts as a view for that post on Posterous. But that would not hit google analytics. Same for RSS feeds.

If people hit your site and have javascript disabled, that would still count as a view on Posterous, but would be ignored by Google analytics

If I go to the main page for your site:
That will count as a post view for *each* of the posts on that page. Google would count that as one view for that page, and no views for each post.

So the fundamental difference here is google analytics is counting when that particular page is loaded with javascript, while we count anytime that *post* is loaded, on any page anywhere.

thanks