Hi all.
I keep fairly detailed records of my local guide data in Maps. So I actually have significant amounts of data I can offer if needed. But to summarise…
I’ve had the total photo views reduce in the past but only by a few thousand here and there and more often than not a few days later a day comes in with a big total (Like they missed counting a few thousand on Weds but then added it on to Sat, for example) This time though it was reduced by 303000 overnight and a week later I haven’t got those views back. My data indicates that I average 160k to 170k views per day (Around 1.1 to 1.2 million views per week)
Here’s the data for the days in question
On Sun 12 Nov = 28,521,880 views
On Mon 13 Nov = 28,687,440 views (In line with the daily average increase
On Tue 14 Nov = 28,384,200 views (A 303,000 reduction)
I’ll post the screenshots of the total view count at the end of this text…
There was no activity on my account for days surrounding the 13th - Didn’t add or delete and photos, my contribution number stayed the same at 22,612, my points didn’t change at 59,021…absolutely nothing changed except my total photo view count. I’ve waited a week to see if the situation rectifies and I get a big photo view increase one day (That’s happened many times) but no, my weekly view count is similarly very low. Here’s the data…
W/E Sun 23 Oct = 1,105,800 views
W/E Sun 5 Nov = 1,190,260 views
W/E Sun 12 Nov = 1,251,620 views
W/E Sun 19 Nov = 797,160 views
So, W/E 19 Nov is 454,000 views lower than the previous week and about 400k lower than my average weekly view count.
Rather than an accounting error it actually looks like they’ve taken 300k off my total view count. I’d really like Google to investigate this issue but dont know if there’s a path to request that.
If they are rectifying an “Over-credit” of views in the past thats fine but if it’s not that I’d like to know what’s happened so I can avoid the issue in the future, if that’s possible.
Update Mon 27 Nov. The weekly total for photo views for W/E 26 Nov is just 551,000 (Around 600,000 views lower than my recent weekly average). So, the anomaly continues. here’s an extra bit of information that again shows the “Total Views” number is just wrong…I track 28 photos daily (The top 20 in terms of individual view count and 8 with much lower totals that are performing well & increasing their view count quickly) The increase in photo views for these 28 photos alone comes to 580,000. How can the total views count increase by only 515k when these 28 photo’s increased by 580k (Bearing in mind I also have the views of another 4512 photos to add to this 580k) In the last few months I have analysed which group of photos contribute what amount to the grand total and the data indicates consistently that the top 20 photos (Top meaning highest view count) constitute 52% of the grand total (Meaning the other 4520 photos give me 48% of the grand total) Last week the top 20 photos increased their view count by 514,710, so the other 4520 photo’s would have given me 475117 views (So, a total view count of almost 1 million). BTW, it isnt an update delay as the last increase in “Total Views” happened Sunday evening - Went from 29,807,130 to 29,870,380 (An increase of 63,250).
My average daily increase over the last 2 weeks was 96,321 views per day
The 2 week period before this had a daily average of 174,420 views per day.
Many thanks
John
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