No problem. And donation sent.

Hello Ajay

I note your second comment.

To get it to happen, I just click on ‘edit’ on any post on my front end blog, and before it goes to the standard editor it displays this message for several seconds – it was for just long enough for me to copy and paste it after a couple of tries. It appears to be a standard WP error message reporting the specific fault location.

If you still require my ‘Style’ settings, please can you clarify which ones these are?

• This reply was modified 2 years, 5 months ago by DOAADI.

Thank you, Peter.

Well, after a lot of troubleshooting I concluded it had to be an issue with my host. UptimeRobot had simply stopped monitoring at 1.30am – no ‘downtime’, it just stopped. I discovered the problem when I awoke Saturday.

I then discovered I couldn’t access any of the sites I host. I could access all via VPN, but not on my own network. No other web sites involved – just my own self-hosted ones.

My IP was whitelisted in Wordfence anyway, and wouldn’t be able to get in via VPN if I were blocked through WordPress, so that ruled out most things my end once I’d done the flushes, resets, and reboots (at least four times).

Long story short. I contacted IONOS and they admitted they had ‘an issue’. It took until midday Monday for them to resolve it, though. I’m not happy, particularly as the second support call was terminated while I was on hold late Saturday evening.

I apologise for asking in the first place, but I hadn’t a clue where to start when it happened.

Thank you, @Ischuyler, that looks to be exactly what I was after.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 5 months ago by DOAADI.

Thanks, Greg.

Yes, I realise that there are differences between methods used, but the ones I’m seeing here are massively different, that’s all.

Thanks anyway.

Jason, I noticed you have edited your previous reply.

Just to clarify. I said that I was not questioning differences between Slimstat and Jetpack – meaning the actual numbers – but since they both agreed pretty much for a whole two years, and Slimstat data had dived off a cliff immediately following the last update whereas Jetpack’s was holding (even showing increased traffic), I was raising a question based on that. It’s quite logical, actually..

I also said that Jetpack hits were logging search terms, indicating that they were not false hits.

In your reply to me you said that Slimstat was logging normally. It was at that point I closed the ticket, since if Slimstat truly WAS operating normally, and yet was logging data differently to the tune of a factor of close to 1.5x down between 2 April and 3 April (and thereafter) it was no longer of use to me.

Something had gone wrong. Absolutely and definitely.

I am truly sorry you have taken the stance that you have. I donated to the plugin 1 February 2016 – I have the receipt in front of me, though it would have been from a different email address (my Paypal account) – but, quite simply, Slimstat stopped working for me and the prognosis as far as timescales were concerned was looking very long, during which time I would have no useful stats. I could not review it as 5 stars on that basis.

I have no choice but to use Jetpack at the moment, so if it makes you happy that I am having to use that instead of Slimstat then I am glad for you.

I really am surprised and sorry you have taken this the way you have (assuming you don’t edit your earlier reply further).

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• This reply was modified 7 years, 5 months ago by DOAADI.

OK, got it.

It seems I left it too long and they have disappeared for good. No matter.