# Are only views from registered users counted?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/are-only-views-from-registered-users-counted/33947
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [September 30, 2015, 2:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/are-only-views-from-registered-users-counted/33947 "2015-09-30T14:32:02Z")
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### Author: ![tgxworld](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tgxworld/32/106117_2.png) [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2015, 2:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/are-only-views-from-registered-users-counted/33947/2 "2015-09-30T14:37:18Z")

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> [@meglio](#):
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> I tried opening a newly created topic from my mobile phone that is not connected through wifi used by the topic creator. I then waited for a few minutes and updated the topics list,

I’m not sure what you mean by the above but based on the topic title alone, the rules for counting the topic view can be found in

> [@Topic view tracking rules](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-view-tracking-rules/25996):
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> Here’s how view tracking should work (but does not currently) Given that we have either one of a unique IP address an account ID / username for a logged in user .. and we prefer account when we have it .. We shall count a “topic view” as a visit to the topic by this particular IP or account in the last 8 hours. Thus, if the IP or account visits the topic again after 9 hours, that is another visit, and the view counter will increment for the topic. The time interval will be controllable vi…

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