# Why is there a 10X Difference in Page Views - Discourse vs. Google Analytics?

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**Created:** [October 31, 2022, 8:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-is-there-a-10x-difference-in-page-views-discourse-vs-google-analytics/243452 "2022-10-31T20:57:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![BCHK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/bchk/32/3268_2.png) [@BCHK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/BCHK)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2022, 8:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-is-there-a-10x-difference-in-page-views-discourse-vs-google-analytics/243452/1 "2022-10-31T20:57:07Z")

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I’m seeing about a 10 fold difference in page views between the Discourse metrics vs. Google Analytics metrics.

For example, here are counts for a representative page on one of my forums:

 ![Screen Shot 2022-10-31 at 1.52.27 PM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/e/0/7/e079b318d8a5efacf3930e9ebcd76106c09e85ec.png)

Here are the google analytics stats for the past week on the same page:

 ![Screen Shot 2022-10-31 at 1.52.51 PM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/5/5/e/55efe57d06dbbd7e29a458e8a2f145845d6019ac.png)

Now I know these stats are not apples to apples comparisons - the first one is “all the clicks ever for that page”, I believe. While the second are the past week’s results.

But still - shouldn’t they be in the same ballpark (or if anything, the weekly should be less than the Discourse “total views” number?

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