Forum:Most visited pages

Hello. I need to know the difference between Most visited pages and Most popular articles in the special pages. Thanks a lot for your answer.--Marie Irène 12:30, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

A second question: does the Most visited pages measure unique users or unique visits? In other words, does it count each user who visits that page only once or more than once? --Ultimate Frog-Man 21:03, November 14, 2009 (UTC)

--Joey (talk) 21:18, November 14, 2009 (UTC)
 * 1) Most popular articles is a list of content pages (mainspace or any other special namespace counted as content), while most visited pages is every namespace.
 * 2) It counts pageviews, so if I go to the page and hit refresh a couple hundred times you'd see that amount added to Special:MostVisitedPages.


 * Thanks, Joey! --Ultimate Frog-Man 21:26, November 14, 2009 (UTC)
 * That's not what I was told by Wikia when I asked. The guy said Most popular articles is a count of page edits, and only Most visited pages is a pagehit count. Related question: Is the MVP count not updating for anyone else? It doesn't seem to be going up on mine even when I know a page has got a lot of hits one day.--Occono 20:30, November 16, 2009 (UTC)


 * I started keeping track after you wrote this. The Most Visited Page stats for the Vampire Wars wiki don't seem to be updating either. How do you file a bug report? Or can you do that if you're just an editor? --Ultimate Frog-Man 02:30, November 25, 2009 (UTC)

An alternative popularity metric
see: User_blog:Najevi/A_way_to_measure_the_popularity_of_the_"subject"_of_an_article

-- najevi 02:22, December 1, 2009 (UTC)