StumbleUpon Stats Hits

[CPUSmith]

Does anyone know why this might be happening?

Some of my article have received a lot of hits from StumbleUpon but the hits or visits are not showing up in the statistics.

I have one article that has 1,790 views but is only showing 68 hits.

AWStats isn't showing that big of an increase in visits.

Are they not supposed to count? Isn't StumbleUpon still a view and therefore a hit?

I have Joomla 1.5.23.

[tangor]

Can't help in this regard. I .htaccess stumbleupon (NC) on general principles. But am curious as to what results!

[phranque]

how do you define/measure "views" vs "hits"?

AWStats is an access log file analyzer.
this means it can only look at requests made for resources on your server and can only assign credit to traffic referred from Stumbleupon if the Referer HTTP request header is supplied and the hostname of the referring URL is properly specified:
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.36

[aristotle]

I think that Stumbleupon normally shows your page in a frame on their site. In other words, it fetches the page from your server but the person doesn't actually come to your site.

[cloud36]

I think most people use the StumbleUpon toolbar...Visitors using the toolbar and Visitors coming from stumbleupon.com probably show up different in analytics.

[Sgt_Kickaxe]

I can confirm the above, when your page is loaded via toolbar the visitor isn't on your site, they are in a frame on StumbleUpon.

Use a frame busting script to stop that from happening if you like but know that when you do, and a stumbler lands on your page, they won't be able to give you a thumbs up and are likely to backpage to get their toolbar back. Hey, at least you'll get credit for a pageview and show up in their browsing history (something that Google goes to great lengths to obtain).

[cloud36]

Just checked this theory out @Sgt_Kickaxe....looks like the url and page source are not hosted on the StumbleUpon when page is loaded via the toolbar...