# Counting Pageviews for users (non-staff, non-crawler)

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/counting-pageviews-for-users-non-staff-non-crawler/157071>\
**Category:** Data & reporting\
**Created:** [July 7, 2020, 7:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/counting-pageviews-for-users-non-staff-non-crawler/157071 "2020-07-07T19:24:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![mrjn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mrjn/32/121540_2.png) [@mrjn](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mrjn)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2020, 9:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/counting-pageviews-for-users-non-staff-non-crawler/157071/6 "2020-07-07T21:26:22Z")

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I see. So, essentially excluding staff users is not possible to get accurate PV numbers.

Taking a long shot here, is it possible to exclude certain categories (I’m guessing not)? We have some private categories which are team internal only – and don’t want those polluting our user PV numbers.

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