# Change 'user visits' description to make it clearer that it refers to signed-in users
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-user-visits-description-to-make-it-clearer-that-it-refers-to-signed-in-users/307363
**Category:** UX
**Tags:** completed, dashboard-reports
**Created:** [May 7, 2024, 11:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-user-visits-description-to-make-it-clearer-that-it-refers-to-signed-in-users/307363 "2024-05-07T11:02:03Z")
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### Author:  [@Bathinda](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Bathinda)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2024, 11:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-user-visits-description-to-make-it-clearer-that-it-refers-to-signed-in-users/307363/1 "2024-05-07T11:02:03Z")
Are only ‘Signed-In’ user visits are counted in the ‘User-Visits’ report?
I doubt this is the scene (ie. only signed in users show) because almost any single days’ report shows around 1k Page views (excluding 'Crawlers), but users only show somewhere between 2 to 5. And my being a small local community, I can’t find it practical that only 2-3 or up to 5 users have viewed approx 1000 pages.
But on the other hand, I doubt it might be number of all users, whether signed in or not, because of the pop-up help shows “Number of All User Visits”.
Pls tell which is true.
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### Author:  [@SaraDev](https://meta.discourse.org/u/SaraDev)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2024, 9:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-user-visits-description-to-make-it-clearer-that-it-refers-to-signed-in-users/307363/2 "2024-05-07T21:10:09Z")
> [@Bathinda](#):
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> Are only ‘Signed-In’ user visits are counted in the ‘User-Visited’ report?
The User Visits report will only count signed in users.
This query is using the `user_visits` table to count distinct visits, which records visits only for signed-in users, as indicated by the presence of a `user_id` field. Each record in this table corresponds to a visit by a signed-in user, and the table does not include entries for anonymous users.
The User Visits dashboard report is showing the same statistics as the Dashboard Activity Metrics for User Visits.
In comparison to the [Dashboard Report - Consolidated Pageviews](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dashboard-report-consolidated-pageviews/289263), that report is counting pageviews from the `application_requests` table, where there can be multiple pageviews per visit, which is why you’re showing more pageviews than user visits.
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### Author:  [@Bathinda](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Bathinda)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2024, 6:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-user-visits-description-to-make-it-clearer-that-it-refers-to-signed-in-users/307363/3 "2024-05-08T06:36:15Z")
Thanks, that resolves it.
Well/But with a suggestion.
> [@SaraDev](#):
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> records visits only for signed-in users
Won’t you agree that, in this case, then, ‘Pop-Up’ help should rather show `Number of Signed-In Users` instead of `Number-of-ALL-user-visits`.
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### Author:  [@SaraDev](https://meta.discourse.org/u/SaraDev)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2024, 7:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-user-visits-description-to-make-it-clearer-that-it-refers-to-signed-in-users/307363/4 "2024-05-08T19:07:34Z")
I’m glad I could help clear up any confusion here.
> [@Bathinda](#):
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> Won’t you agree that, in this case, then, ‘Pop-Up’ help should rather show `Number of Signed-In Users` instead of `Number-of-ALL-user-visits`.
I would agree that the pop-up text for this report should show something like `Number of Signed-In User Visits` instead of `Number of all user visits`, for better clarity.
I’ll mention this with our internal team to see if we can make some improvements here. 🙂
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### Author:  [@SaraDev](https://meta.discourse.org/u/SaraDev)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2024, 6:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-user-visits-description-to-make-it-clearer-that-it-refers-to-signed-in-users/307363/8 "2024-05-13T18:24:32Z")
The text description for this report and the User Reports (Mobile) has been updated to indicate `signed-in` users with this PR: 🎉
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/26955/files](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/26955/files)
Closing topic.
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2024, 6:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-user-visits-description-to-make-it-clearer-that-it-refers-to-signed-in-users/307363/11 "2024-05-15T18:28:27Z")
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