# 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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**Post date:** [December 12, 2018, 9:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-views-vs-topic-views/97175/16 "2018-12-12T21:53:45Z")

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I’d think that using topic\_user would return the same count of views as the topic\_views table would (which has full records) since that’s the one that stores user data-- what I’m missing is the record-level data for anonymous viewers with the same IP, but honestly, just knowing what the discrepancy there was is pretty much good enough 🙂

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