# How does the views feature work
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-the-views-feature-work/53424
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**Created:** [February 7, 2001, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-the-views-feature-work/53424 "2001-02-07T00:45:29Z")
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### Author:  [@oldscratch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oldscratch)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2001, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-the-views-feature-work/53424/1 "2001-02-07T00:45:29Z")
How does it work? Does it go up everytime a single person views the thread? If I refresh, does it count as another view? Does it only count once per user? Once per session? Once per user per post?
Inquiring minds want to know
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### Author:  [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2001, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-the-views-feature-work/53424/2 "2001-02-07T01:00:45Z")
Based on my vast vB experience (_crowd drops to the floor laughing_), combined with a bit of WAG, I’d say it goes up every single time a click is made on the link. Like a pagecounter for your homepage does, kinda.
I’m sure one of the more skilled Mods or Admins is going to come in and make fun of me now. 😉
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### Author:  [@oldscratch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oldscratch)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2001, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-the-views-feature-work/53424/3 "2001-02-07T01:09:14Z")
You do appear to be correct.
Huh, fancy that. Common sense at the SDMB.
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### Author:  [@Lord\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Jim)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2001, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-the-views-feature-work/53424/4 "2001-02-07T01:16:03Z")
While rolling on the floor laughing, I hit reload a half a dozen times and sure enough the _view_ count was up by 7 (one for my initial click and then 6 more for the reloads). I tried it two more times with the same results, although someone else looked at this thread a couple of times too.
So, since these aren’t static pages, any request for the page seems to increment the _view_ counter.
Jim