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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A discussion on “Page Views vs. Top Views” is taking place. AaronW is confused about the difference between the number of page views (around 1300 for a month) and the views shown for top topics (only 170 views in total). HAWK questions whether AaronW is implying that there are only two topics in the community. Moin clarifies the definitions of page views and topic views. According to Discourse, page views include all requests for content, whereas topic views are counted as visits to a topic, with duplicate views from the same user counted after an 8-hour interval.
Are you saying that there are only 2 topics in your community?
Page views are not just viewing a topic
Topic views are counted differently. It’s