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DevilKisses
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25 Jan 2016, 2:52 am

I'm curious about how many views are bots and web crawlers and how many views are actual people. I'm mainly wondering about this because I'm not sure if my imgur views are actual people or not.


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29 Jan 2016, 5:24 pm

Normally page counts reflect unique IP addresses within a given time period. Crawlers don't revisit a given page all that often so their effect is usually minimal. However, imgur doesn't work that way:

"An image view is counted each time the image is loaded. This includes images that are hot-linked or embedded on third-party sites. Views are not unique and count even if you refresh the page."

https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/article ... mage-view-


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