11-25-2014, 11:31 AM
(09-04-2014, 10:28 PM)Parsons Wrote: I'm 99.99% sure the high view count is from Google and other web crawlers scanning the thread, that way it's up to date when you utilize said search engine. It is nice to think that up to 1.2 million people viewed the thread, though.
(11-25-2014, 10:22 AM)Bring4th_Steve Wrote: I will confirm, however, that web crawlers and GoogleBots do "not" add to the page view count! They are filtered, according to the MyBB forums. Guests and member views *are* added to the count, so it's more than likely that humans have hit our pages before deciding whether Bring4th matched their search or not.