How are pageviews/Views calculated?

[Jumanji]

Does this explanation still hold true?

How are pageviews counted?

pageviews are the number of raw requests to load a page. the count can be significantly higher than the daily engaged users. anon page views are always higher and crawlers add to it of course. you should as a rule expect that you are getting more anon user visits than member views.

Is if the same for the views count on index pages and at the bottom of a topic page?

We’re noticing some underreporting of PVs from both anon users and logged in users. Posting a reply changes the views count, but simply reloading the page with an ALT+ Refresh doesn’t appear to change views.

Should repeat views of the same page, whether by anon or logged in users, increment up the view count?

We’re self hosting 3.4beta3. When we upgraded to 3.2 we had some issues with the Topics Viewed counter not incrementing correctly.

Thanks!

[Moin]

@Jumanji

Does this explanation still hold true?

Mostly. Page views are now counted separately for users who are logged in, visitors, crawlers, and traffic that could not be identified. You can read more about the current report of pageviews in the documentation Understanding pageviews and the site traffic report

@Jumanji

Is if the same for the views count on index pages and at the bottom of a topic page?

Views on topics are counted differently. This post explains it:

Views counter specification

A visit to a topic. Duplicate visits from the same user are counted after a 8 hour interval. A user is either a logged in user or an IP address for anonymous visitors. The 8 hour interval can be changed with the site setting topic view duration hours. Yes. No No

@Jumanji

Should repeat views of the same page, whether by anon or logged in users, increment up the view count?

Yes, but only after topic view duration hours have passed.

[Jumanji]

Thanks for sharing those informative resources! The topic view duration setting is definitely coming into play here.

I’ll do a bit more testing to make sure there isn’t anything we’re doing on our end contributing to an issue.

Thanks!