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Traffic under Insight of repository #23048
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I created a website in HTML, and published it using GitHub Pages. Now i regularly go to see traffic on my repository, and I have multiple questions about it.
Thanks!! First topic, hoping for quick help!! |
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Hi @AnimishY! Welcome to the GitHub Support community! The insights tab within your repository displays traffic for your repo, not your GitHub pages site itself. If you are logged in to GitHub then your own page views won’t be counted. Visitors is the total visits to your repo. Unique visitors refers to the number of individual users who have visited your repository and these are only counted once, regardless of how many times they visit the repo. Cloners refers to people to have cloned or downloaded a copy of your code from GitHub. Again, unique cloners is the number if individual users who have cloned the repo, whereas cloners is the total number of clones. If you want to track traffic to your actual pages site, the best way to do this is through configuring a third party analytics service, such as Google Analytics or Clicky. I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any other questions! |
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Hi! Thank you for the question and answer. Can I as a quick question as well please? "If you are logged in to GitHub then your own page views won’t be counted" - I am logged in to https://github.com/gavrie01/my_repo in WEB, this is "if you are logged in to GitHub" part of the above statement, right? Why there is always me, as 1 unique user, 2 or 3, but not 28? Am I doing something wrong mwybe? I am sorry in advance for the question and for taking your time, but maybe someone can explain me "in very simple words"? to me it looks like ths tab does not work. Here is the screenshot of my page: |
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Hey @robertnorrie, Thanks for reply! |
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Is Unique visitors counted based on device IP Address ? means if i visit one of my repository (without logging in github) from 2 devices (laptop, mobile) , then unique visitors will be 2 ? |
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no not actually, because it doesn't calculates views from users who are not logged in |
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I'm little confused that why is the number of visitors less than the cloners. Also how will I verify that the cloners are not publishing my code under thier name. And also why is that that people have cloned my repo instead of downloading the release |
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Probably bots that use the GitHub API, or some other means that is not counted, and pull/clone every time there are new commits. |
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I have a question who are the unique visitors are.Are they found the repo from github or the traffic come from other search engine |
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I think its a bit unclear still how traffic works. |
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I think those are cloners who did not visit the page, but used the repository adress to clone it from an editor. So they did not enter the repo they just used git commands feom their editor to clone the repo using the repo's address. |
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Hi @AnimishY! Welcome to the GitHub Support community!
The insights tab within your repository displays traffic for your repo, not your GitHub pages site itself.
If you are logged in to GitHub then your own page views won’t be counted.
Visitors is the total visits to your repo. Unique visitors refers to the number of individual users who have visited your repository and these are only counted once, regardless of how many times they visit the repo.
Cloners refers to people to have cloned or downloaded a copy of your code from GitHub. Again, unique cloners is the number if individual users who have cloned the repo, whereas cloners is the total number of clones.
If you want to track traffic …