Story view counts

[Thiagawr]

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[TadOverdon]

They've accessed at least a page of it with their browser.

Which is pretty meaningful. They don't have to do that.

 

[SimonDoom]

Hi.

Apologies if this is covered somewhere - the search function doesn't seem to like my browser/device.

What counts as a view or reading for published stories?

Is it simply that someone has opened it for a moment, or is it something more specific and meaningful?

Thanks.

Every time someone opens it, just for a moment, that's a view.

If someone comes back to it and opens it, that's a new view.

There is no way to know if the viewer actually read the story. You can infer that the number of "reads" probably lies between the number of views and votes, although it's theoretically possible someone is skipping to the end of the story and voting without actually reading it.

 

[Thiagawr]

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[Zeb_Carter]

Every time someone opens it, just for a moment, that's a view.

If someone comes back to it and opens it, that's a new view.

There is no way to know if the viewer actually read the story. You can infer that the number of "reads" probably lies between the number of views and votes, although it's theoretically possible someone is skipping to the end of the story and voting without actually reading it.

There is actually a way to do that, but it would only be from 'today' forward. They(lit) knows the IP address of the voters, they could also store the IP address of the clicker of the story link. Then when and if the that same IP clicked the second page of the story and the next and the next they would know if the clicker had read the entire story. Or at least clicked on all the pages.

Of course the processing time that would take might a bit prohibitive but with todays multi-core servers probably not that much.

 

[KeithD]

I don't think the site admin has revealed what registers as a view.

 

[gordo12]

There is no way to know if the viewer actually read the story. You can infer that the number of "reads" probably lies between the number of views and votes, although it's theoretically possible someone is skipping to the end of the story and voting without actually reading it.

Theoretically, you can do that. but it's a huge hole and as Zeb explained fairly easy to block. Whatever vote got recorded would be swept.

 

[8letters]

I don't think the site admin has revealed what registers as a view.

Actually, my recollection is that site management has said that every time a story is retrieved from the database where they are kept is counted as a view.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Actually, my recollection is that site management has said that every time a story is retrieved from the database where they are kept is counted as a view.

Yes. A quick test clearly shows the view count increases by one every time you click into a story. You don't need someone to tell you that, it's real-time evidence.