Automattic / Automattic/jetpack
Stats for clicks lags behind stats for views
- Dominant language
- PHP
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Description
### Impacted plugin
Jetpack
### Quick summary
In the early hours of the day, it seems like the views go up while the uniques lag behind and catch up hours later.
Originally reported here:
https://github.com/wordpress-mobile/WordPress-iOS/issues/24114
However this doesn't seem to be Mobile specific:
### Steps to reproduce
1. On a site with traffic
2. Check the stats in the early hours. Views go up faster than uniques
3. Check later - the numbers catch up
### Site owner impact
Fewer than 20% of the total website/platform users
### Severity
Moderate
### What other impact(s) does this issue have?
_No response_
### If a workaround is available, please outline it here.
_No response_
### Platform (Simple and/or Atomic)
_No response_
Contributor guide
Research direction
The issue names no file, test, or entry point; begin by tracing Jetpack’s views and uniques statistics paths and compare their early-day update timing with the linked WordPress-iOS report. Reproduce the discrepancy on a traffic-bearing site and treat the work as complete when the cause of the lag is identified and the metrics follow the intended timing.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- php
- Domain
- analytics
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100