What does `incoming link count` in discourse database mean?

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I was hoping that incoming link count for a post in discourse database means no. of times external websites have mentioned that post in their content… But the numbers that I have are too high to believe that.
Could someone please explain what does incoming link count mean?

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I believe it is the number of incoming links from the forum itself, that is, the number of other posts that have linked to that post.

There is no rational way to determine how many times external websites have linked to a place without crawling the entire web, like Google.

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Miré el código y parece que incoming_link_count es similar a la tabla “topic_views” excepto que no incrementa incoming_link_count cuando el formato de la solicitud es JSON.

Aquí están las líneas relevantes en topics_controller.rb

  def track_visit_to_topic
    topic_id =  @topic_view.topic.id
    ip = request.remote_ip
    user_id = (current_user.id if current_user)
    track_visit = should_track_visit_to_topic?

    if !request.format.json?
      hash = {
        referer: request.referer || flash[:referer],
        host: request.host,
        current_user: current_user,
        topic_id: @topic_view.topic.id,
        post_number: @topic_view.current_post_number,
        username: request['u'],
        ip_address: request.remote_ip
      }
      # defer this way so we do not capture the whole controller
      # in the closure
      TopicsController.defer_add_incoming_link(hash)
    end

    TopicsController.defer_track_visit(topic_id, ip, user_id, track_visit)
  end

Esperaba que esta columna me dijera el número de veces que alguien llegó a este tema desde un enlace externo (incluidos los motores de búsqueda externos) en comparación con los clics en enlaces internos.

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¡Lo mismo! Sería genial si fuera posible ver qué temas se visitan más desde enlaces externos :+1::+1::+1: