# How to measure active users?

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**Category:** Data & reporting\
**Tags:** sql-query\
**Created:** [November 22, 2017, 9:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-measure-active-users/74574 "2017-11-22T09:39:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/bas/32/294929_2.png) [@Bas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Bas)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2017, 12:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-measure-active-users/74574/9 "2017-11-23T12:24:54Z")

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> [@robmc](#):
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> I’ve found that most analysis tools are under-valuing the role of readers because of a focus just on the activity of posting. There is a big difference between inactive members and active readers!

I think you are correct in saying this.

There are ways (e.g. separating logged in/out users, measuring read time, collating paged threads etc.) to guide Google Analytics to do quite a bit of this for you; but it takes some proper GA-fu to accomplish.

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