# Are post read counts per user accurate?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/are-post-read-counts-per-user-accurate/54096>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [December 11, 2016, 5:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/are-post-read-counts-per-user-accurate/54096 "2016-12-11T17:47:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2016, 10:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/are-post-read-counts-per-user-accurate/54096/4 "2016-12-11T22:16:15Z")

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Did these users jump to the end of long topics? If you jump to the end of a 20,000 post topic, you may get “credit” (by some but not all of our stats) for reading 20k posts depending on how the stat is calculated.

I remember @Mittineague telling us about this.

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