Intermediate
Real Views
How to read Real Views analytics in the Admin CP
Read the Overview and Analytics tabs to compare qualified views with bots, repeats and unverified requests.
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Open the reports
- Needs the View Real Views reports permission.
- Tabs: Overview, Analytics, Cloudflare, Settings.
Understand the counters
- Observed requests, qualified views, confirmed repeats, recognized bots, unverified requests, qualification rate.
Change the time range and filters
- 24-hour (hourly), 7-day and 30-day views, or custom dates.
- Filter by forum or thread.
Use the breakdowns
- Tabs: country, network (ASN), browser, bot, identity method, geography source.
- Top threads show canonical thread paths.
- Create rule shortcuts exist for countries and networks.
Geography sources and data retention
- Geography can come from trusted Cloudflare headers or local GeoIP databases; main analytics work without either.
- Retention: 30 days hourly, 365 days daily, lifetime qualified totals kept.
- No raw IP or raw user-agent history is stored in analytics tables.