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"Most viewed" is a very incomplete statistic. I often "view" pages just to look up something like "is this film worth watching?" or "what else has this person d
by arp242 3y ago
"Most viewed" is a very incomplete statistic. I often "view" pages just to look up something like "is this film worth watching?" or "what else has this person directed and is worth watching?" – kind of like a reference similar to imdb, except without imdb's clunky interface.
But this "view" isn't really a "read". There are other pages I've also read much more in-depth, and in terms of "time spent" it would probably rank much higher.
I'm sure some people do read these pages more in-depth too, but there's no real way to tell who is using them merely as a reference and who is actually reading them.
Back when phone books were common it was probably the most "viewed" book.