# إجمالي المشاهدات على المنتدى
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/total-views-on-a-forum/113256
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [2 أبريل 2019، 6:06م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/total-views-on-a-forum/113256 "2019-04-02T18:06:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Nina\_11](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Nina_11)
#### Post date: [2 أبريل 2019، 6:06م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/total-views-on-a-forum/113256/1 "2019-04-02T18:06:23Z")
Can I see the total number of thread/message views on a particular forum? I’m interested in understanding how many total ‘hits’ a forum gets as a proxy to understand the overall volume of searches. If so, is this information available publicly?
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [2 أبريل 2019، 7:29م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/total-views-on-a-forum/113256/2 "2019-04-02T19:29:24Z")
How do views equate to searches?
If you can explain more about what you’re trying to achieve we may be able to advise on an approach.
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### Author:  [@Nina\_11](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Nina_11)
#### Post date: [2 أبريل 2019، 7:50م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/total-views-on-a-forum/113256/3 "2019-04-02T19:50:35Z")
It’s probably misleading to say that _total views = total searches._ What I’m trying to approximate is how many people are actually viewing the content on the forum to get a sense of how many customers actually have specific questions/concerns and seek out the forum to provide the answers. Does that make sense?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2 أبريل 2019، 9:01م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/total-views-on-a-forum/113256/4 "2019-04-02T21:01:06Z")
Why not just sort the topic list by the views column, click on it to do so. You can also do this per category.