Can someone explain why Discourse built-in anonymous pageviews are 30x larger than Matomo pageviews for any given day?

Matomo shows pageviews and unique pageviews, on my site there is a slight difference between Matomo pageviews and unique pageviews. Discourse pageviews are 30x larger.

I could be wrong, but Google or Matomo, for example, are usually blocked by ad blockers (such as uBlock Origin or similar). Because of that, I would expect some difference, at the very least.

Discourse is a single-page application, so any request that reaches the server and incurs significant work will be counted as a page view. All requests for content, such as a list of categories, topics, or posts, count as page views, whether by a human or a web crawler. Other tools generally use Ja…

I use the Brave browser which blocks ads and Matomo accurately tracks visits using it. Discourse tracks Logged in users, Anonymous users and Crawlers, so I don’t see how crawlers are contributing to 30x inflated Anonymous users pageviews compared to Matomo. Now compare topic views count to pagevie…

I have never seen anything like 30x higher – it’s usually 2-3% higher. I can’t tell you specifically what is going on here.

Big difference between Discourse and Matomo pageviews

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Jagster (Jakke Flemming) April 13, 2024, 2:03pm 2

Matomo shows unique times and Discourse real and happened views. Basically if you hit several times F5 Matomo counts one and Discourse counts how many times you hit F5.

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Big difference between Discourse and Matomo pageviews

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