I have in my forum an unreal number for the most clicked topic in a month. Is there a way to know where this clicks are coming from ?? Because It was an odd jump in numbers and we wanted to make sure there wasn’t a glitch or something we missed. For example, the topics average clicks per month are …

Any thoughts? or any situations like this where a topic get thousands of clicks or the click counter increase without reasons? or any bug reported, I have been checking Meta forum but I didn’t find anything.

Hi @bayardo.rivas ! I guess nobody had any ideas about why your forum got a jump in Top Referred Topics. Sorry about that! This is external sources, so I assume your forum is public and these are just hits coming from bots. Or maybe a topic was shared on social media and got alot of attention? I don…

hey @tobiaseigen , thank you for your time. The problem is that I found some other cases with this kind of spikes in different months including this year. The numbers are ridiculous because our forum is private, and we get SSO from other application, so only authenticated users in our application c…

Thanks for the additional context! I’m afraid this is going to be hard to help you with here given your site is private. If you moved to our hosting our support team would be able to log in and take a look. On self-hosting, you could post to Marketplace to ask for help. Personally I don’t find that…

Yes, I think it’s possible that members bookmark some topics, but even if they do that the quantity of clicks is huge. @tobiaseigen , I really appreciate your time. The forum is not otherwise affected so far, so I will keep and eye on this trying to catch an event like this if it happens again.

OK great! I will close this topic now. If it comes up again and you have new information, start a new topic or flag this topic “something else” and we will reopen it for you.

Tópico com um número irreal de cliques nos "Top Referred Topics"

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bayardo.rivas (Bayardo Rivas) Outubro 21, 2025, 7:27pm 2

Alguma ideia? ou alguma situação como essa em que um tópico recebe milhares de cliques ou o contador de cliques aumenta sem motivo? ou algum bug relatado, tenho verificado o fórum da Meta, mas não encontrei nada.

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