Up until a month ago, I was using LingQ to exclusively further my Russian. However, I could never figure out how word counts and listening counts were tracked. If I listened to a Russian lesson and stopped along the way to make links, it did not count as listening for some inexplicable reason. If I stopped anywhere in the middle of a lesson, the words I read or listened to thus far didn’t count at all. It seemed that only if I finished a lesson did my words or listening time count. Moreover, it seemed that I had to do one or the other: listen straight through without links to have it count as listening time, or I could read it and make links which would only activate the reading amounts. Neither of these tracking methods made sense to me but I figured that is the way they were. If I listened/watched the accompanying video, that didn’t count at all.
However, when I started Spanish a month ago, I found that a the tracking system was totally different from what I encountered with Russian. First, the word count changed per page, regardless of whether I finished a lesson. However, inexplicably, sometimes the word count and listening time would both increase for a particular lesson when I listened and read it simultaneously and sometimes it wouldn’t, much to my frustration. (The listening time only counted if I completed the lesson.) The fact that the tracking is not consistent within Spanish and does not match what occurs in Russian makes no sense to me whatsoever.
I do not know how the tracking system works with the other languages but it seems to me that it should be uniform across all languages and consistent within each language.