I have several projects on GitHub, and they all have the traffic graph where I can view how much traffic my repository is getting.
The blog post I had linked is very vague about visitors. It states:
..how many unique visitors it's had..
I just find it odd that some of my repositories have daily activity, but I'm not sure if most of those views are me, and if they are, why does it say "unique visitors" when i would be the only unique visitor
Does the traffic graph used on GitHub include yourself when navigating through your own source? It's very minor, but I'm genuinely curious if the views I'm getting is myself navigating through the source, or if I have people that are actually browsing through my source.
In specific, the line that shows "Views", not "Unique visitors" because unique visitors will obviously mean new people browsing the repository.
For those who think this is offtopic, re-read the on-topic post. Most notably:
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It looks like this behavior has changed, and now the traffic by the repository owner's views does not count when the owner is logged in.
A recent support question asked this, among others, and received the following reply from a member of staff:
- My visit to my repository also count as a visit?
No, viewing your own repository while signed in doesn’t count towards this data.
I have checked that his holds by checking one of my repositories: the graph shows no views even on days when I visited the repository several times.