# Topic\_views vs Topic.views

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-views-vs-topic-views/97175>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [September 14, 2018, 8:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-views-vs-topic-views/97175 "2018-09-14T08:25:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![izzy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/izzy/32/156031_2.png) [@izzy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/izzy)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2018, 7:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-views-vs-topic-views/97175/14 "2018-12-12T19:37:46Z")

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I’m running into this too, but on a pretty hefty scale.

![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/optimized/3X/c/5/c5f9a6cc760bad7c2872f4273e5e868e8f1a6191_2_690x78.png) The topic itself shows ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/8/e/8ee51214f4e18a61a7967679b26b1666d84baa21.png).

Was it confirmed that

> [@RGJ](#):
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> `topic_views` for anonymous users are counted [once per IP](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problematic-ip-address-fields/83785/30)?

The only reason it’s grinding my gears is that the `Topic.views` is static-- You can’t do an analysis of how many views there were on this day last year, because it doesn’t record each view-- just adds to the running count.

Is there some way using another table to get a full list of views on a per-record basis?

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