# Topic view count is inaccurate in topic index

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-view-count-is-inaccurate-in-topic-index/56764
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [Février 2, 2017, 2:02 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-view-count-is-inaccurate-in-topic-index/56764 "2017-02-02T02:02:04Z")
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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [Février 21, 2017, 1:03 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-view-count-is-inaccurate-in-topic-index/56764/8 "2017-02-21T13:03:10Z")

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So you are complaining that the referred topic “clicks” does not match topic view counts?

Note that topic view counts are reset once per 8 hours per IP (for anons). So if you had a lot of anon visitors coming from the same IP that won’t show up in view counts.

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