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Blog Thursday, August 21, 2008 // Blog home »
Can those numbers be right? »

A few weeks ago we noticed that the printed page view numbers on iReport.com stories seemed awfully low. So we did a little digging and learned that the number of views that appears on every iReport.com story page wasn't being calculated the right way. That meant that stories like kbc9393's amazing video of this week's China earthquake was marked as having about 5,400 views when in reality it's more like 237,000. That's a big difference, and it reveals one more accurate measure of the impact iReport.com stories can have. So today we're happy to announce that the bug is fixed. From now on, new stories should get the right view count (and we're working hard on adjusting all the old stories, too).

That fix was part of a few site updates that rolled out this morning. Also included: a new "last updated" date on stories so you can know when they were edited and support for thumbnail images in our RSS feeds. Hooray! Hope you like the updates as much as we do.

Posted by lila // 3 months ago
Category: site
8 Comments

May 14, 2008

3 months ago

I KNEW I HAD A FALSE READING 261! Lila, I go to bed visions of the 1,ooo hit benchmark in my head.
Closing with a smile.
Mz. Ella @ Ladies' Hood Journal has found another digital hoooooooome where my new family nderstands this sensitive artist with arthritis and no medical. -not starving tho'.
Closing for real this time with a Hallalujah, Amen.

May 14, 2008

3 months ago

hi i want ask you something i was super star why im not super star now? i dont know?and another qyes i tryed lot of things to confurm my mail still my mail unconfirm i think the company they will kill me when they will see me lol becose i sent alot of mails just to fix the problem in my id but it still uncofirm i change alot of things the password the name the mail ehhhhh and my supoerstart is gone i dont know why nd nwo im so sad:(any oen can help me plzzzzzz

May 14, 2008

3 months ago

hi i want ask you something i was super star why im not super star now? i dont know?and another qyes i tryed lot of things to confurm my mail still my mail unconfirm i think the company they will kill me when they will see me lol becose i sent alot of mails just to fix the problem in my id but it still uncofirm i change alot of things the password the name the mail ehhhhh and my supoerstart is gone i dont know why nd nwo im so sad:(any oen can help me plzzzzzz

May 14, 2008

3 months ago

Thankyou Aunt Lila..:)

May 17, 2008

3 months ago

Hi Dima, we recalculate the superstar list every week. Here's some more background on how it works: http://www.ireport.com/faq.jspa#superstar

May 19, 2008

3 months ago

ty, I generated almost 149k in hits today, it'll be interesting to see the numbers on my previous submissions

May 25, 2008

2 months ago

My counts continue to be very low and people are telling me that "views" are not increasing on my ireports when they click on them. I've emailed several times for assistance. Could you PLEASE review my reports and adjust the views to the correct numbers. I may be missing thousands of hits. Thank you!

May 25, 2008

2 months ago

I am still having a problem with not having "views" counted on my reports! Please check my postings and update them to the correct view counts. Thanks for your assistance. --All the best!
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