# How are Pageviews calculated in Discourse? **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-are-pageviews-calculated-in-discourse/61352 **Category:** Data & reporting **Created:** [April 20, 2017, 9:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-are-pageviews-calculated-in-discourse/61352 "2017-04-20T21:13:08Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 3
### Author: ![DeanMarkTaylor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/deanmarktaylor/32/102462_2.png) [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor) #### Post date: [April 20, 2017, 10:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-are-pageviews-calculated-in-discourse/61352/3 "2017-04-20T22:30:12Z")
You may be able gleam some interesting info from this topic: > [@Traffic Dashboard Stats](https://meta.discourse.org/t/traffic-dashboard-stats/24854): > > I just deployed some very basic web traffic stats: [image] A page view is defined as a HTTP request that we serve with an 200 (OK) provided It is decorated with the Discourse-Track-View header, which is injected when we move around the site It has content type of “text/html” is not an XHR request and is a GET request This gives you a quick way to tell what kind of traffic you are seeing removing a bunch of noise If you feel like “expanding” and getting a raw view, click on: “Show Detaile… --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-are-pageviews-calculated-in-discourse/61352)._