# Traffic Dashboard Stats
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/traffic-dashboard-stats/24854
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** feedback
**Created:** [2월 5, 2015, 5:47오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/traffic-dashboard-stats/24854 "2015-02-05T05:47:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)
#### Post date: [2월 25, 2015, 11:51오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/traffic-dashboard-stats/24854/24 "2015-02-25T23:51:31Z")
> [@sam](#):
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> The one pain point we have with it is that bots can skew numbers a lot.
You know who bots are because they only see non-JavaScript pages?
Perhaps bots for free and increase user request prices appropriately?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2월 26, 2015, 12:02오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/traffic-dashboard-stats/24854/25 "2015-02-26T00:02:33Z")
At the moment the only egregious bot we are seeing is actually one we are running to ensure sites are up and running, we test each site we run 3 times a minute and it adds up to quite a high number. So we will add a specific ignore for it in our custom plugin.
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### Author:  [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)
#### Post date: [2월 26, 2015, 12:08오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/traffic-dashboard-stats/24854/26 "2015-02-26T00:08:25Z")
> [@sam](#):
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> we test each site we run 3 times a minute
> …
> So we will add a specific ignore for it in our custom plugin
Actually I run Pingdom against a few of my Discourse instances and would benefit from a similar plugin.
Is this something that would be “easy” for you to open source?
If not don’t worry - I’m sure you have enough to do.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2월 26, 2015, 12:22오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/traffic-dashboard-stats/24854/27 "2015-02-26T00:22:03Z")
Actually leaning on just using a our custom header for this,
If `Discourse-Track-View` is `false` or `0` do not count. Does pingdom allow you to inject headers?
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### Author:  [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)
#### Post date: [2월 26, 2015, 12:23오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/traffic-dashboard-stats/24854/28 "2015-02-26T00:23:45Z")
> [@sam](#):
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> Does pingdom allow you to inject headers?
Yes:
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2월 26, 2015, 12:43오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/traffic-dashboard-stats/24854/29 "2015-02-26T00:43:21Z")
This is now implemented per:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/cbe18eb0dfb8063251d2b3f18d4a326464ef3e1b](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/cbe18eb0dfb8063251d2b3f18d4a326464ef3e1b)
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### Author:  [@sigurdur](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sigurdur)
#### Post date: [2월 26, 2015, 12:43오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/traffic-dashboard-stats/24854/30 "2015-02-26T00:43:38Z")
Soo .. how about simplifying this even more ..?
Skip the traffic metric and base your pricing on # of users..
(I used dev tools to remove the traffic and just have limit on users)
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### Author:  [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)
#### Post date: [2월 26, 2015, 12:48오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/traffic-dashboard-stats/24854/31 "2015-02-26T00:48:21Z")
> [@sam](#):
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> Set Discourse-Track-View to either “0” or “false” to exclude request
Thanks @sam! - updated my pingdom monitoring…
… not sure where to look to make sure it’s working - I’m sure some numbers in admin will decrease over the next couple of days.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2월 26, 2015, 12:51오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/traffic-dashboard-stats/24854/32 "2015-02-26T00:51:24Z")
From our experience the vast majority of traffic sites get are from anon, you have to factor that in.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2월 26, 2015, 12:59오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/traffic-dashboard-stats/24854/33 "2015-02-26T00:59:26Z")
No, I don’t support limiting by number of users at all. Violently opposed. The whole point of Discourse is to build a large community. What if you have 100,000 users but only 1,000 show up every day? That’s what we want to measure and charge for, and that is activity aka “API views”.
Not to mention anons as @sam noted.
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [5월 16, 2016, 10:18오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/traffic-dashboard-stats/24854/34 "2016-05-16T10:18:39Z")
These stats are now visualised as well!
> [@Visualised traffic statistics](https://meta.discourse.org/t/visualised-traffic-statistics/44298):
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> We now have fancy visual graphs to help community managers better track activity trends in their Discourse forum. This feature was quietly released by @sam some weeks ago; now we’d like some feedback. You can see the graph for any traffic stat in your dashboard by clicking on it, like these ones: Example stats from Meta Identify peaks at a glance: Set custom date ranges: Filter data for specific groups:
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [5월 16, 2016, 10:18오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/traffic-dashboard-stats/24854/35 "2016-05-16T10:18:43Z")
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