Is there an explanation on how Discourse tracks posts read, and other information?

[noornahas]

Just generally interested in how “posts read” and other statistics are tracked.

[Arkshine]

Welcome

Here is some information about that:

Understanding stats for 'topic views', 'posts read', and 'reading time'

This is a reference guide explaining how topic views, posts read, and reading time are tracked on Discourse. Required user level: All users Discourse provides insightful statistics on user activities such as read time, topics viewed, and posts read. This information can be accessed on the user’s profile page: [User statistics] Topic views Topic views represent the number of topics a user has clicked on. When a user clicks on a topic, it loads in their bro…

How does post tracking work in Discourse

Discourse tracks read time for every post users see on the screen. This system has evolved over the years and I find I often need to refer back to the code to figure out how this works and why it exists. This post covers the painful technical details of the current implementation. How the Discourse client tracks timing Post timing tracking is implemented in screen-track.js.es6. This module is responsible for tracking how long a post has been on the screen and how long the topic has been on scr…