How do I view total views on the forum?

data & reporting
1

Is there a way to see the total number of views on the forum? I want to track the total views, but it seems like I can only see the number of views for each individual topic, and it is tedious to manually add up.

2

If you have the data explorer you can create a query for this.

Possibly something simple like:

SELECT 
    SUM (views)
FROM topics
WHERE archetype = 'regular'

I think people generally use the pageviews as the metric for this kind of count though, using the Consolidated Pageview graph on your admin dashboard.

3

ohhhh makes sense, thank you so much!

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4

It’s not a like-for-like match, but if you want to see how busy your site is over time the pageview graph can be an easy place to track it from.

5

And I would like to remind we have a lot of purpose made tools for this kind data, as Matomo.

Discourse gives metrics to make general curiosity happy and that is quite often enough, though.

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