[Request] Clarify the difference between clicks and real clicks and views

[erdmenchen]

Its unclear to me as a user, what the difference is between clicks and real clicks, and also what is the difference between clicks and views.

Make this clearer, either by documenting it or by reducing complexity and only talk about one kind of interactions:
Since this project is only counting url requests and is not a usage analytics tool inside of a website (e.g. google analytics) with custom javascript, only talks about clicks and not views.

As a user I am confused about what is shown on the analytics page of a shortened URL.

[optiroot]

Hello @erdmenchen!
Thank you for opening this.
You're right saying that there is some confusion about clicks vs views. Actually they are the same thing. But we use views when we talk about countries, and we use clicks for all the rest.
If this is confusing (and now I'm thinking it is), I can change it to just views or just clicks.

I leave this issue open so I invite others to contribute by sending their opinion here, so we can choose either clicks or views.
Thank you!

[michaellindahl]

My vote is on clicks. This aligns with other URL shorteners like bit.ly and kutt.it

[michaellindahl]

@optiroot What is the difference between clicks and real clicks?

[realodix]

You're right saying that there is some confusion about clicks vs views. Actually they are the same thing. But we use views when we talk about countries, and we use clicks for all the rest.

@optiroot what the difference is between clicks and real clicks?

[optiroot]

Actually, clicks are the same as views so, real clicks and real views are the same thing also.
The difference between "clicks" and "real clicks" is that real clicks evaluates for a single IP click in the last 24h hours. While, "clicks" is how many clicks in general the link had (for example if the same user clicks the link two times, we will have 2 clicks but 1 real click).

[erdmenchen]

Why not calling it visitors and clicks?

[optiroot]

I have an update on this.
Having checked other Url Shorteners, I came to the conclusion that between clicks and views it's better to use clicks.
Soon I'll push a commit that changes everything related to this.

Thanks you everyone!