Discrepency in incoming pageviews figures

[Aliscans]

If I look up New_York in WikiNav, it says:

19.9k incoming pageviews¹

¹ The actual number of incoming pageviews received by New York is 15.4k.

Based on the rest of the footnote, I expected the first figure not to be higher than the second one.

I haven't tried to run WikiNav locally, so I don't know if this is specific to that server.

[martingerlach]

Thanks for surfacing this.

I believe the reason for this are redirects:

• the clickstream data maps pageviews from all redirect-pages to the page title that they redirect to
• the number report as "actual number" in the footnote comes from the pageviews API. I think that this only yields the number of pageviews of the specific page title without its redirects. Thus, this number is lower. But when including redirects the number is actually higher (22.9K) than the clickstream as expected. See the pageviews-tool query

Suggested fix: include the pageviews from all redirects when fetching the number of pageviews of an article per month fetchMonthlyViews https://github.com/mnzpk/WikiNav/blob/main/client/src/services/pageviews.js