Why there is huge difference in Pageviews tracking number on discourse admin dahboard and on google analytics

[jrgong]

Digging out this one…

@sam I found the post below from you which exactly described what Discourse and what Google Analytics counts as a “page view”.

@sam

###What do I think a page view should be?

1. A non ajax HTTP GET request that is served successfully
2. An ajax HTTP GET request that is “decorated” by the Ember router on route transition.
   a. When you move from topic list to topic, we count a page view
   b. When you move from the topic page to the user page we count a view
   c. When you switch filters on the user page we do not count a new page view

Is that still how page views are counted? We are trying to reconcile if and which analytics tools to use in the future since so far GA, Plausible and Fathom all are undercounting the page views compared to Discourse’s own analytics.