# Page Views vs. Top Views

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/page-views-vs-top-views/340721>\
**Category:** Data & reporting\
**Created:** [December 5, 2024, 8:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/page-views-vs-top-views/340721 "2024-12-05T20:24:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![AaronW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b3f665/32.png) [@AaronW](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AaronW)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2024, 8:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/page-views-vs-top-views/340721/1 "2024-12-05T20:24:26Z")

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We are a small community. When I look at the number of page views for say a month of logged in users, it says that there were about 1300. But when I click on “Top” on our main page, there are only a couple of topics and they say that they have 170 views total. So I am confused, since these are logged in users, it shouldn’t be crawlers or anonymous users, but why is there such a difference between the two numbers?

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