How to Read Your dochost Page Analytics

Every dochost page counts its own readers, and paid accounts get that data in two places: a per-page manage screen and an account-wide Analytics page. This guide shows both, explains what a "view" is, and lists what each plan unlocks.

Per page: the manage screen

From the dashboard, click any page. The top of the manage screen shows the link, three totals — Views, Likes, Avg. daily — and a Views, last 14 days chart.

The Engagement card on the right tracks likes towards the next free extension, and Time remaining shows the page's expiry — see How Long a Free dochost Link Lasts.

Account-wide: the Analytics page

Analytics in the sidebar rolls everything up:

• Total views, Total likes and Pages across the account.
• Views — last 30 days: one curve for all your pages combined, with the date the data starts.
• Pages by views: a table of every page, most viewed first, with likes alongside. Click a row to open that page's manage screen.

What counts as a view

A view is counted on the server when a reader's browser loads the page and fetches a one-pixel image from the page's own host. That design has three consequences worth knowing:

• No script is injected into your page. HTML you publish runs exactly as written; dochost does not add a tracker to it. The pixel is part of the page shell around your document.
• Ad blockers do not remove it. Because it is a plain image on the same host, the count survives the blockers that hide Plausible or Google Analytics — so dochost numbers are usually higher than what a third-party tool would report for the same page.
• Password-protected pages count only unlocked reads. A visitor who bounces off the password gate is not a view.

Views are aggregated per page per day. The 14-day and 30-day charts are built from those daily buckets, which is also why a page's total can be larger than the sum of the chart: the total includes days before the chart's window.

Likes are separate: a reader clicks the heart in the corner pill of a public page, once per browser.

What each plan shows

On the free plan the Analytics page explains what is locked; the per-page counts still accrue in the background, so upgrading later shows history, not a blank slate. Plans are on pricing.

Reading the numbers

• A spike on day one is normal. Most pages get the majority of their reads in the first 24 hours after being shared. A flat line afterwards is not a problem with counting.
• Avg. daily divides total views by the days since publishing, so a page that had a burst and then went quiet will show a falling average.
• Every load counts. There is no cookie and no fingerprinting, so a reader who opens the page three times is three views. Obvious crawlers and link-preview fetchers are filtered by user agent and never counted.
• Pages published from Claude, ChatGPT or the extension appear here too. Analytics is per account, not per channel.