How do I view total views on the forum?

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The discussion revolves around tracking total views on a forum. Prospleforum wants to view total views but only sees individual topic views. JammyDodger suggests using the Data Explorer with a SQL query or the Consolidated Pageview graph on the admin dashboard to track pageviews. Prospleforum found this helpful. JammyDodger notes that the pageview graph can help track site activity over time. Jagster mentions that Matomo, a purpose-made tool, can also be used for this kind of data analysis.

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!

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.