I noticed that right after I posted a question, it went from 1 to 2 page-views. I also noticed that Google is super fast to index SO questions.
Does Google indexing count as a pageview?
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4I believe google index with robots and those usually aren't counted as regular users. So I think the answer is no. But I can't know for sure.Mansueli– Mansueli2014-08-06 22:31:57 +00:00Commented Aug 6, 2014 at 22:31
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13I never did get an answer to my question about the badges. :(animuson– animuson StaffMod2014-08-06 22:32:03 +00:00Commented Aug 6, 2014 at 22:32
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12@animuson: At least you got the badge for it...Makoto– Makoto2014-08-06 22:52:30 +00:00Commented Aug 6, 2014 at 22:52
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2Since many people look at the front page, it doesn't surprise me that a question has two page views in a short time.GolezTrol– GolezTrol2014-08-07 12:59:03 +00:00Commented Aug 7, 2014 at 12:59
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Google can spider super fast but not as soon as you post a question, pinging the site that much might kill it with load, bing bot is bad enough on that frontSammaye– Sammaye2014-08-07 20:36:15 +00:00Commented Aug 7, 2014 at 20:36
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No, google does not appear to increase the viewcount
This is based on the assumption that all questions are treated equally.
Here is how I checked this:
- Search for a question with minimum views, (does not actually work very well)
- Open a question with 2 views so far it had exactly 2 when I opened it,After refreshing it increased to 3 because of me.
- Note that it also had an upvote, so clearly someone visited it in the past besides the asker
- Check whether google can find the text in the question, which it can
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I am unsure how you know, with that method, that Google bot did not create a view increment whe it indexed it. Wouldn't have the Google bot increment happened before you viewed the question?Sammaye– Sammaye2014-08-07 20:34:43 +00:00Commented Aug 7, 2014 at 20:34
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13One view from the author, one from Dennis, and one from whoever upvoted. That leaves no views from the Googlebot.user2357112– user23571122014-08-07 20:39:04 +00:00Commented Aug 7, 2014 at 20:39
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@user2357112 ah yeah trueSammaye– Sammaye2014-08-07 20:39:40 +00:00Commented Aug 7, 2014 at 20:39