I am trying to understand how many people are logging into my discourse every day, and tracking that from day to day. Is that the “user visits” stat, or does that include multiple visits by the same user? Is there a way to see who precisely has logged in on a given day?

The /about page has the number of users who were seen in the last week+month.

The closest I know of is by going to Users → Active (currently not filterable by date) Less that what I think you’re asking for, but depending on how many visitors you get and how often you check it might be of some help.

That’s awesome - thanks! I had actually turned that page off for reasons that I will post in a new topic.

Does “user visits” only include logged in users, or does it include anonymous users as well?

Nope only registered, logged in users are counted there.

If “user visit” is only logged in users, is there a metric that tracks visits from everyone?

Yes, that is called Google Analytics :wink:

Or Mixpanel for analytics :). Got it, “Total visits” metric is not in the /admin dashboard.

What does “User Visits” mean exactly? If I go to the Discourse site, browse a bit, close the tab and come back an hour later in a new browser tab/window, while I am still the same person, same browser, will this count as 2 user visits or just 1? What if I do the same, but my second visit is from a different device with the same user account? What about users who are not logged in and only read? Do they count as user visits too? BTW: The post below is not an answer, it lacks a precise definition of what the user visits are. [image] riking: The /about page has the number of users who were seen in the last week+month.

No. It means logged in users. You could be on 50 different devices and you are the same logged in user. Not logged in users come through as anonymous users.

I think I am a little confused on how “User Visits” varies from “Logged In” pageviews. My current understanding after reading a few different threads is: User visits are unique logged in users that have been in the forum per the time period (today, yesterday, last 7 days, etc). Logged In Pageviews are every pageview for those same logged in users. So if a user was in the forum and viewed 10 different pages, their user visit would be 1 and logged in pageviews would be 10. Please correct me if I am wrong.

What is "user visits" on the admin dashboard?

Community Building Data & reporting

codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) September 23, 2019, 8:39am 17

It’s usually 00:00 UTC which is server time.

Topic		Replies	Views
"User Visits" definition Product Support	1	965	February 8, 2018
Discourse definitions for viewed, read, visits on the user page Product Support	2	960	July 17, 2020
Understanding User Visits and Active Users in Discourse Site Management explanation , reporting	0	11426	October 3, 2017
Change 'user visits' description to make it clearer that it refers to signed-in users UX completed , dashboard-reports	4	381	May 13, 2024
Unique visitors (including logged in and anonymous) Data & reporting	6	1334	November 1, 2019

What is "user visits" on the admin dashboard?

Related topics