Views of VKontakte entries

Good afternoon, readers of the blog site. Today we will find out what views are and what a view counter is for.

VK views counter

Any post (except those that were published before the beginning of 2017) has a view counter in the lower right corner of the window. It is displayed to everyone, whether it's a user page or a community. It appears immediately when you create a post and cannot be hidden or removed.

If you hover the mouse cursor over the counter, the information about those who viewed the record is duplicated in the tooltip. Most likely, this is done for those who do not see very well, since the text of the counter for people with poor eyesight does not always manage to see well.

As we already wrote, the counter is displayed on all records, except for those that were created before the introduction of this function. Since VKontakte information is updated so quickly, it is quite difficult to find such records now ????

How post views are counted

In order for the counter to count the viewing of the news, the record must be in the active window of your browser for a short time. Or you can like or. Often times, a view is counted after hovering over the counter itself. Sometimes, with a slow Internet or other problems, you need to reload the page to see that the view was counted.

Although VK claims that it is the number of views, and not the number of people, that counts, and the system takes into account repeated views, in fact, as a rule, one view is counted from one person. A complex algorithm works in the counter, which is done to avoid cheating views.

If you repost a post, then views will be counted from all pages where the news was re-posted. As a result, on your page or community page (where the repost was made from), the counter will display the total number of post views on all pages.

When there are a lot of views, letters are used in the counter TO and M... For example, if 10K means that the post has 10 thousand views (here everything else is rounded up or down). Likewise, 10M stands for 10 million views.

How to view VKontakte photo views

In general, there is no view counter, and you will not be able to know how many times your photo has been viewed. But there is one trick with which you can find out the popularity of the new posted photo in VK. To do this, you need to put it on the wall, as a record. Views are considered only for news, but in this case, the photo posted on the wall will be news, and then you can find out how many people have seen your photo.

Why view counters are needed

Views are needed to evaluate the popularity of the news, as well as the popularity of the user's or group's page. Then you can compile some statistics for yourself. For ordinary users' pages, this may not be so important (well, if only to be proud), but for commercial pages and communities, views play an important role. By them, you can find out the interest of people in a post or a page (community) as a whole. For example, such indicators in a group with 300,000 subscribers indicate that the post is extremely popular.

Can I find out who viewed the news?

Unfortunately, there is no such possibility on VKontakte - this also applies to the field of privacy. The counter shows only the total number of views without specifying specific people (as, for example, in the counter of likes or reposts).