I am trying to understand how many people are logging into my discourse every day, and tracking that from day to day. Is that the “user visits” stat, or does that include multiple visits by the same user?
Is there a way to see who precisely has logged in on a given day?
The closest I know of is by going to Users -> Active (currently not filterable by date)
Less that what I think you’re asking for, but depending on how many visitors you get and how often you check it might be of some help.
The /about page has the number of users who were seen in the last week+month.
That’s awesome - thanks! I had actually turned that page off for reasons that I will post in a new topic.
Does “user visits” only include logged in users, or does it include anonymous users as well?
Nope only registered, logged in users are counted there.
If “user visit” is only logged in users, is there a metric that tracks visits from everyone?
Yes, that is called Google Analytics 
Or Mixpanel for analytics :).
Got it, “Total visits” metric is not in the /admin dashboard.
What does “User Visits” mean exactly?
If I go to the Discourse site, browse a bit, close the tab and come back an hour later in a new browser tab/window, while I am still the same person, same browser, will this count as 2 user visits or just 1?
What if I do the same, but my second visit is from a different device with the same user account?
What about users who are not logged in and only read? Do they count as user visits too?
BTW: The post below is not an answer, it lacks a precise definition of what the user visits are.
No. It means logged in users. You could be on 50 different devices and you are the same logged in user.
Not logged in users come through as anonymous users.
I think I am a little confused on how “User Visits” varies from “Logged In” pageviews.
My current understanding after reading a few different threads is:
User visits are unique logged in users that have been in the forum per the time period (today, yesterday, last 7 days, etc).
Logged In Pageviews are every pageview for those same logged in users.
So if a user was in the forum and viewed 10 different pages, their user visit would be 1 and logged in pageviews would be 10.
Please correct me if I am wrong.
Sounds about right to me!
@codinghorror I’m using the data explorer plugin to create a daily stats table. For user_visits, is it possible for a user to have more than one visit in a day? Or do all visits in a day get chunked into the same row? I’m seeing 1 daily visit as the max and I’m wondering if there’s an error in my query or if there’s actually a limit on this.
Thanks for everything you do 
A user can only have one entry per day in the user_visits table. The table has a unique index on user_id,visited_at. The posts_read field of the day’s visits will get updated as the user reads more posts.
Where can I find the time Discourse starts counting it’s (our) day for user visits - or more accurately, where can I find the time the user visit routine runs. We have one user who has been trying to figure it out - to no avail in a couple of months. 
He has apparently missed 2 days in the past quarter.
It’s usually 00:00 UTC which is server time.
您好，
阅读完这个帖子后，我们仍然对“用户访问量”的含义感到有些困惑？这是指您选择的时间段内的独立用户吗？
例如，
这里显示我们在 2 月份有 286 次用户访问，但我们的论坛只有 97 位用户。
您能澄清一下吗？
谢谢，
Cat
您好 Cat，
在此回答您的问题：
用户访问报告显示了所选时间段内（今天、昨天、过去 7 天、本月等）论坛的总用户访问次数。
具体来说，只要有唯一的登录用户访问网站，就会计为一次用户访问，每天最多一次。
例如，如果一个用户在一周内每天都访问了网站，Discourse 会将其计为 7 次用户访问。这就是为什么一个月的用户访问次数可能比您网站的总用户数还要多的原因。
如果您感兴趣，也可以在此处查看此报告的 Ruby 代码：discourse/app/models/concerns/reports/visits.rb
希望这对您有帮助！ 
