SilkPantyGirl
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I had my first story approved last night. This morning the "view" count is over 7000. This can't possibly be the number of people who have read my story, so what does it actually mean?
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I had my first story approved last night. This morning the "view" count is over 7000. This can't possibly be the number of people who have read my story, so what does it actually mean?
Views are kind of an undefined statistic. Anytime someone clicks on your story(even if they immediately click off)its a view. Anytime you look at it counts as well.
There are also web crawlers, bots things of that nature that count as well.
Out of 7k its impossible to tell how many are real reads.
I was going to say that the big first-week spike in views also seems more like a human thing, but maybe that's not true; could be that the smart crawlers are able to recognise pages that update more frequently and check them more often, so they'd be staking out the New Stories section like the rest of us.
If you look at the views at the bottom of the story by where people favorite, you'll see a pretty accurate count, my browser has it in light gray, so it's easily missed.
That count compared to the 'author control panel' count makes me think it's a unique view statistic, as they are never the same.
As far as I can tell, the difference between them is timeliness - the one on the "view submissions" page appears to be live, the one at the bottom of the story is only updated once or twice a day. For old stories that aren't getting a lot of hits from day to day, the counts seem to be very close, which suggests it's not about unique vs non-unique views.
I've seen some pretty fucked up stories that had a crazy amount of views & comments.