Does the GitHub traffic graph include your own views?

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ddavison picture ddavison · Apr 3, 2014 · Viewed 29.2k times · Source

I have several projects on GitHub, and they all have the traffic graph where I can view how much traffic my repository is getting.

The blog post I had linked is very vague about visitors. It states:

..how many unique visitors it's had..

I just find it odd that some of my repositories have daily activity, but I'm not sure if most of those views are me, and if they are, why does it say "unique visitors" when i would be the only unique visitor

Question:

Does the traffic graph used on GitHub include yourself when navigating through your own source? It's very minor, but I'm genuinely curious if the views I'm getting is myself navigating through the source, or if I have people that are actually browsing through my source.

In specific, the line that shows "Views", not "Unique visitors" because unique visitors will obviously mean new people browsing the repository.

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Answer

Anubian Noob picture Anubian Noob · Apr 6, 2014

OK I just contacted support and received a response:

Hello -

> Do the numbers in the traffic graphs include your own views? What about the view of contributors?

Thanks for getting in touch! Yes, the numbers include everyone's views including repository owners and contributors. There's no way to filter this information at the moment, but I can definitely add that as a feature request for the team to consider.

Hope that answers your question - thanks!

So it does include your own views, but they might add the option to filter it later.

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