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Significant drop in GA pageviews

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Hi there,

I've been noticing a significant drop in page viewed on my forum (almost half).

I understand that some feature now work without actually refreshing the page but as a publisher, loosing half my pageviews cuts half of my CPM revenues...

How is it going to be adressed?

You can disable ajax pagination under the custom tab of the settings for the theme that you're using.

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Just did, i'll monitor the changes that it makes on my page viewed.

Thanks for your time @Colonel_mortis

 

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Do you think that the AJAX component is the sole responsible for this massive drop in page views?

 

Do you think that the AJAX component is the sole responsible for this massive drop in page views?

It will have made a considerable difference, though I don't know whether it can account for all of the drop - it depends on your site. The best way to tell is to see if the view count recovers once it's disabled.

maybe turn off guest caching as well?

not 100% sure if it affects the counter/ads

Guest caching has nothing to do with it. 

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Sure is a short sampling period but I don't any jump in page views on my side... Any one had any luck by killing the AJAX component?

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This is resolved in a future update (possibly 4.1.12) - we will notify Google of a page request upon ajax calls. 

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This is resolved in a future update (possibly 4.1.12) - we will notify Google of a page request upon ajax calls. 

Was it part of the latest update? I don't recall seing it in the list of element fixed or new features

Would like to know also.

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No. Likely 4.1.13

even my page views were almost halved   though ajax was disabled in theme as suggested....

please share what is the issue  - how long it had been as for me this is from last two months ...

 

even my page views were almost halved   though ajax was disabled in theme as suggested....

What forum system were you using before?

I have been upgrading within 5 days at the release so it has been always latest........... but the site traffic has been increasing ... I was wondering y parevenue was  decreasing and then realized decrease in page views. and today saw this post so trying to co relate 

My page views has gone down - but IPS has upgraded my cloud package in the last two months april.png

 

I have been upgrading within 5 days at the release so it has been always latest........... but the site traffic has been increasing ... I was wondering y parevenue was  decreasing and then realized decrease in page views. and today saw this post so trying to co relate 

Sorry I meant what forum system were you using before the drop? or did you notice a drop between IPB v4 versions? (aka 4.0.X to 4.1.X)

 

Sorry I meant what forum system were you using before the drop? or did you notice a drop between IPB v4 versions? (aka 4.0.X to 4.1.X)

Not sure... but this drop started from April first week, and so whichever was latest at that moment....

IPS upgrades are so fast   not easy to recall...

 

Not sure... but this drop started from April first week, and so whichever was latest at that moment....

IPS upgrades are so fast   not easy to recall...

If you had a drop between say 4.1.1 - 4.1.2 (aka minor version) then its possible its a google traffic drop.

 

If you had a drop between say 4.1.1 - 4.1.2 (aka minor version) then its possible its a google traffic drop.

What will be the solution?

 

What will be the solution?

You will need to drill into Google Analytics to confirm the sources of your traffic but if its mostly caused by lack of traffic from Google I would check Googles webmaster tools and see if it reports any errors/issues. If it doesnt and google has tweaked the search algorithm then there is little you can do sadly.

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This is resolved in a future update (possibly 4.1.12) - we will notify Google of a page request upon ajax calls. 

Any updates on what update this is going to get fixed?

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My page view counts is still way below what is used to be for the same amount of traffic...

Any updates or people with the same issue?

Thanks

I think this was supposed to fix any pageview issues: 

Especially judging from this in the comments:

 
 

Does this mean that all this time our page views were wrong?

Edit: Reason I am asking is that when we migrated from vbulletin, we lost around 40 to 60% of our pageviews, and we never got that back. 

 

They weren't 'wrong' per se, but Google Analytics wouldn't track dynamic pages by default, and since we use ajax to load a lot of content in IPS4, those actions wouldn't count as a view. That goes a long way towards explaining why you'd see a drop in overall page views.

This change will enable those dynamic page views to be tracked.

 

 

 

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I was under the same impression but when I look at my stats, the page view count is way below what it used to be for more visitors...

 

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