What Counts as a view?

  • Resolved mkroler

    (@mkroler)


    3 years, 2 months ago

    Rudimentary message here so apologies if this is readily available, but what exactly counts as a page view for this plugin? We’re getting drastically different view numbers between this plugin and Google analytics.

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  • Plugin Author Hector Cabrera

    (@hcabrera)

    3 years, 2 months ago

    Hi @mkroler,

    Every time someone visits one of your posts / pages / custom post types the plugin will save that as one view(1) to the database.

    To save myself sometime -as this is a FAQ- I’m going to copy&paste here a response I left on a different thread regarding a similar issue not that long ago:

    This is sort of covered here: Views count different than Jetpack’s?

    TLDR;

    There will always be some level of data variation across views tracking tools due to differences on how these were built / work. In my personal experience GA’s views data is not that different from what WPP reports (but it’s always slightly different).

    If you’re seeing a very noticeable difference between the two there might be something going on (eg. one of the two isn’t able to track some visits for some reason) but without more information it’s hard to say what may be going on.

    (1) If you have Data Sampling enabled then this is not true, the behavior then is different.

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