| Picasaweb View Count malfunction continues | blisterfree | 8/10/12 2:45 PM | The Picasaweb view counter has been malfunctioning for months. I assume Google is aware of this, but an update on progress might be in order now. The problems: 1) views counts above 0 on just-uploaded photos to public albums that no one has yet vie |
| Re: Picasaweb View Count malfunction continues | mike smith. | 8/11/12 12:22 AM | Your Honor In the case of 'user vs view counter' ... May I open in defense of the accused Many years ago when my client was first employed in the picasaweb site, his working conditions were very fair, and his task of counting all views of photos s |
| Re: Picasaweb View Count malfunction continues | blisterfree | 8/11/12 11:05 AM | Hmmm... Very entertaining, but... Google might want to summon the spirit of the late Johnny Cochran if the goal is to successfully defend, in particular, something so egregious as exhibit A (problem #1) as delineated above. |
| Re: Picasaweb View Count malfunction continues | mike smith. | 8/11/12 2:02 PM | Okay I will admit the view counter is up to a little bit of creative accounting, I've seen the same wild exaggerated counting going on in my own unlisted web albums...is this buggy view counter going to be fixed, or at least fixed soon...I have no id |
| Re: Picasaweb View Count malfunction continues | blisterfree | 8/11/12 6:27 PM | Mike - I appreciate your responses and your candor - really! And I will readily admit that your command of the view counter's record of failure far surpasses my own knowledge on the subject. But c'mon - This is intended to be a social feature of Web |
| Re: Picasaweb View Count malfunction continues | mike smith. | 8/12/12 11:09 AM | O dear, when you put it like that you have my full support, I totally agree with you, I withdraw my defense All we can hope for is a sympathetic hearing...over to you Picasa Team PS, I uploaded this especially for the view counter, and yes it recei |
| Re: Picasaweb View Count malfunction continues | Phil KL | 8/13/12 9:02 AM | Yeah, Mike and I have been putting up with this unreliable view counter that should be sent back to elementary school since we first saw it on day 1 a few years ago. I had even recommended many times that Google remove it since no data is far better |
| Re: Picasaweb View Count malfunction continues | blisterfree | 8/13/12 9:07 PM | For the inside scoop, Mike's Analytics recommendation is obviously the way to go. As a social feature of web albums, how about switching to an album-level counter instead, assuming it might be easier to accurately track clicks that way, from each use |
| Re: Picasaweb View Count malfunction continues | blisterfree | 8/15/12 9:06 PM | Here's an interesting set of circumstances: I just uploaded 1 photo to my dropbox album. Initial view count: 2 Immediately moved said photo to a different album. View count of self-same photo jumps to 28! For the sake of experimentation, moved the |
| Re: Picasaweb View Count malfunction continues | Brian Rose | 8/16/12 7:03 AM | We recently changed the view counter to update more frequently, instead of once every 24-48 hours. We also now include view counts from mobile users who view photos at smaller resolutions. Your own views of your photos are counted, and I'm unable to |
| Re: Picasaweb View Count malfunction continues | blisterfree | 8/16/12 10:35 PM | Thanks Brian. The view count anomalies when moving photos between albums is really a small potatoes issue when compared with the immediate phantom views (sometimes 10, 15, or more) that show up on every photo uploaded to any album, public or private. |
| Re: Picasaweb View Count malfunction continues | mike smith. | 8/16/12 11:12 PM | I can offer one theory for quite a few of those excessive view counts , and it's all to do with captions Add a caption to a web album photo, and the web crawlers out there can't resist taking peek at your photo, and I'm guessing here that this 'hit |
| Re: Picasaweb View Count malfunction continues | NatureFootstep | 8/17/12 10:46 AM | o. dear, I just posted the same question. Will it be dealth with? |
| Re: Picasaweb View Count malfunction continues | blisterfree | 8/17/12 11:19 AM | Mike - The initial "loading" of bogus view counts happens *the very second* the image is uploaded, before I've even had a chance to add captions. So we know the problem is internal to Google, right? And that's why we can't trust the view counter in g |
| Re: Picasaweb View Count malfunction continues | NatureFootstep | 8/17/12 12:18 PM | It seems to me that the wild counting stops after visiting the shot and labeled it. After the initial no of many counts it seems like it is following what I see on my blog quite well. But I would not rely on it for sure. |
| Re: Picasaweb View Count malfunction continues | blisterfree | 8/17/12 2:17 PM | @NatureFootstep - What you're describing is consistent with my experience. There's an initial slug of bogus view counts. After that, counter behavior becomes more normal-looking, but who really knows? It's like having to take a politician at their wo |
| Re: Picasaweb View Count malfunction continues | bmoore09 | 9/9/12 6:35 PM | Yah, the view count is TOTALLY off. As soon as I uploaded an album I'll goto Picasaweb and it'll have 18 views. I didnt even share it with 18 people....its bogus |
| Re: Picasaweb View Count malfunction continues | Garf255 | 9/12/12 8:00 AM | Hi All, I'd like to add my thoughts into this if I may as I have had the same issue with the view count today. I have uploaded to my Picasa web album some photos of our new baby today to share with family, it was set to Limited, only people with the |
| Re: Picasaweb View Count malfunction continues | johnmperry | 9/13/12 10:00 AM | And if you have a video, it has no view count whatsoever! |
| Re: Picasaweb View Count malfunction continues | Cattails | 10/8/12 10:57 AM | Glad I found this discussion. I have been wondering about the counts as well. I assumed that the views right after posting were from people catching the uploads from the Explore tab <https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/explore> where you can see recently |