Question about Flickr views

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I've been a Flickr user for years (primarily as an archive channel rather than for sharing - I'm not that good a photographer!). In the last year or so and partly due to the 52 Week Challenge on this Forum I've started using Flickr more in earnest, tagging etc and looking at my stats. Generally, I only get 10-50 views a day (usually when I've posted a Challenge shot). Today, it's telling me I have almost 1,900 views although the photo at the top of this list is saying only 2 views today.

Anyone have any idea why this might be and what's going on?
 
Has been a while since I looked at my Flckr......but as I recall there is a stats section that can be sorted by 'number of views per image' ~ perhaps that will tell you more?
 
Yes, that's what I'm looking at. The top of the list photo has two (2) views today. Maybe there have been 1,900 individual views of other photos, but I doubt it given the norm for my account is usually so low.
I'm not worried about it, just curious as to why it's so high when the top view appears to have been seen twice
 
You can see every single photo that has had a view on that particular day on the stats page, so it should be obvious pretty quickly if it's a blip or genuine views. Click on the day on the graph and it'll then list all the photos.

They do add up pretty quickly, for example on July 10th I'm seeing 11,800 views, but the top individual image only had 135 views. A peak at the data below that (of the individual images) shows pages and pages of photos that had 80-120+ views, so they can steadily add up.
 
Ta both
Guessing it must either be some glitch considering I've never seen this before, or someone's gradually trolling through all my photos one by one. They must be bored! :LOL:
 
SimonH said:
I've been a Flickr user for years (primarily as an archive channel rather than for sharing - I'm not that good a photographer!). In the last year or so and partly due to the 52 Week Challenge on this Forum I've started using Flickr more in earnest, tagging etc and looking at my stats. Generally, I only get 10-50 views a day (usually when I've posted a Challenge shot). Today, it's telling me I have almost 1,900 views although the photo at the top of this list is saying only 2 views today.

Anyone have any idea why this might be and what's going on?
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Maybe you're confusing the difference between each photos having their own daily views, with the total overall number of daily views? Photo 1 gets 50 views in a day, Photo 2 gets 45 views in a day, Photo 3 gets 60, Photo 4 gets 35, and so on. All of your photos in your Photostream gets added up and you see a total daily views of 1,900.

Plus the total daily views would include the number of times the Photostream and Albums had been viewed. Thus 1,900 views don't mean adding up the total number of views each photos had been viewed, it also counts the number of times your Photostram had been viewed.
 
Major Eazy said:
Maybe you're confusing the difference between each photos having their own daily views, with the total overall number of daily views? Photo 1 gets 50 views in a day, Photo 2 gets 45 views in a day, Photo 3 gets 60, Photo 4 gets 35, and so on. All of your photos in your Photostream gets added up and you see a total daily views of 1,900.

Plus the total daily views would include the number of times the Photostream and Albums had been viewed. Thus 1,900 views don't mean adding up the total number of views each photos had been viewed, it also counts the number of times your Photostram had been viewed.
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I get that - my point though is that the number was massively higher than it usually (ever) is. See attached screenshot. As I said, I'm just curious as to why, or what prompted it on that day.Screenshot 2021-07-31 at 09.20.09.png
 
Just stirred me to check my stats total views = 9,613,612 yep that’s nearly 10 million views . And I really don’t know why as I’m just a part timer
 
SimonH said:
I get that - my point though is that the number was massively higher than it usually (ever) is. See attached screenshot. As I said, I'm just curious as to why, or what prompted it on that day.View attachment 325825
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Well, it can sometimes happens.

I've read somewhere that sometimes there are some kind of bots viewing Flickr user's photos, and it may cause an unusually high number of views. Sometimes you got a lucky day when fate happens, far too many people viewed your photos on the same day. Sometimes someone new joined Flickr and gets overexcited, ends up viewing almost every one of your photos.

I've given up on trying to figure out why, and just simply accept it. Like they say: Don't look at a gift horse in its mouth.

But it can also happen the other way round too.

I tend to get approximately between 1200 to 1600 views every day, then one day it dropped to just 700 views in a day, then it's back to the usual average number of views I get every day (between 1200 to 1600 a day).

Again, rumour had it that it is the bots, or so many Flickr users got overexcited watching a World Cup football match so not much people viewing our Photosteam.

It just happens.
 
I'm at 6.2 million views
I normally upload 2 images per day - any more than that and the later ones very rarely get looked at.
Also depends on how many people you follow of follow you.
My most viewed image has over 36,000 views - God only knows why :thinking:

Don't get me started on Explore!!
Years ago I had my very first Explore image.
I noticed that a few months later it was dropped.
Being new to Flickr at the time, I emailed them to ask why an Explored image could be dropped months later.
I would have thought it was a daily thing.
Next thing I knew all of my Explored images had been dropped and I haven't had one since.
Some images in Explore are stunning but the majority are fairly mediocre to my eyes :rolleyes:
 
It will all remain completely meaningless in as far as each of those viewers is unlikely to communicate any response to you about how they read your photograph and what it meant to them, if anything.

The whole business is accidental, and cannot gauge an image's cultural value. And my best guess is that the much-vaunted 'Explore' is driven by a pointless algorithm - which says it all, really. To attend to such things is childish.
 
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