Birgit:I am cc-ing analytics@ our public e-mail list where questions like this one get asked (and archived).>As far as I know, page views are counted every time someone views a page, and if someone reloads a page several time, each time would be counted as 1 >page view. Is that correct?>>I wonder if you could explain the reasoning behind that a bitYes, we do not count "distict" pageviews by a user, but pageviews overall. So if look at barak obama pages 10 times one day those are 10 pageviews.>If we would want to be able to know if a page got just reloaded by the same person, we would need to have a unique ID for each user, and this would have to >be browser connected. I'm guessing that this would be a strong privacy issue.Correct. Event with unique IDs we could never identify users, just devices. As uniqueIDs are really cookies on your browser.Thanks,nuriaOn Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 6:48 AM, Birgit Müller <birgit.mueller@wikimedia.de> wrote:BirgitBest,Looking forward to your answer, and I hope you're doing well!Am I right, or what are the exact reasons behind that?From the technical perspective, I could imagine that this would also be very difficult.If we would want to be able to know if a page got just reloaded by the same person, we would need to have a unique ID for each user, and this would have to be browser connected. I'm guessing that this would be a strong privacy issue.my first guess was:I wonder if you could explain the reasoning behind that a bit -As far as I know, page views are counted every time someone views a page, and if someone reloads a page several time, each time would be counted as 1 page view. Is that correct?We're currently running a feedback loop on the PageView Analysis tool by MusicAnimal/Community Tech, and in that context a question appeared:Hi Nuria,we shortly met when you had your team offsite in Berlin :-)
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