Does Blogger Count Your Own Views in Stats? How to Stop it

When I first started a blog I would marvel at how quickly I was gaining readers. The blog had only a few posts and already hundreds of views had appeared. I was constantly updating and posting and watching the traffic soar and soar, then I took a few days off. Suddenly no-one was reading the blog, I couldn't understand where the 50+ readers a day had gone. Until it dawned on me that I was my entire audience - the stats were nonsense.

So one of the first things you should do when you start a blog you should stop Blogger tracking your own blog visits. This is very simple to do:

1. Go to your dashboard
2. From there find stats.
3. To the right of a graph you should see "Don't track my own page views" - click it
4. Check the "Don't track my pageviews" and the save.

However Blogger will only stop tracking views from this computer, so if you work on your blog on more than one computer Blogger will track the views from your other computer(s). This is because the system identifies you by browser.