What counts as a view in MW?

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Anyone knows what counts as a view in MW? When the model shows up on a user’s screen or when a user clicks at the cover/thumbnail and opens the model page?

I don’t see a definition but maybe I missed it.

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View usually means page view. So it would be the model page being opened.

With that said, now that I’m looking at the MW analytics, the Downloads to Views ratio seems a bit skewed so maybe they count when your model is viewed in a search result or category page also.

Another consideration is the type of page view, unique vs raw. What I would expect from this type of basic analytics dashboard is unique page views, but they could be counting raw page views, meaning the same user session multiple times from a revisit or refresh.

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For a model, each time a user opens its model page, the counter will increase. Some typical cases:

  1. open the model page via homepage, category page, searching result page, etc.
  2. open the model page via URL
  3. refresh the model page on web browser
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So when the model owner opens the model during uploading and editing, those don’t count towards the number of views, right?

Can another metric be added to the analytics to show the number of times the model is visible (i.e. in the viewport (users’ screen)) to the users? By comparing the number of times the model is visible and the number of views, one can get some idea on how well or not well the model catches users attention/interest. The new metric can be called Visible or Diplayed or some other terms.

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Yes. This is in our plan.

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@Tanklet Any status update on this?

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btw: this is called an impression

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Whatever MW decides, it’s fine with me, but it should only be counted when the image is in the viewport, and not just on the search result page which sometimes triggers an impression count.

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We have implemented the impression counter and is in the test stage.

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Great! Will MW be able to provide the view rate ( # views / # of impressions), and also the average view rate for the specific model category so designers have a better idea how their view rate compares to other models in the same category? I knew I requested this benchmark feature for other metrics in other threads but not specifically for the view rate.

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The conversion rates will also be provided:

  1. views / impressions
  2. downloads / views, prints / views

For the average data, we will consider it.

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Yes. And please consider providing the average data. Without a reference or some kind of benchmark, the conversation rates have no context. Calculating the average by category is not a difficult task, and it’s something that only MW has the data to do.