Do viewers have to be on the document in SharePoint for a certain amount a time for a view to show up?

Question

I am trying to track usage of who reads a document that our team publishes to a SharePoint site. We expected the views to be higher. What counts as a "view"? Do viewers need to be on the document for a certain amount of time? Is there any additional criteria?

Answer 1

Per my research, the algorithm used to calculate view count is designed to filter out repetitive, continual operations by the same user on the same document. For example, when a user repeatedly refreshes a document. There is no specific requirement that viewers need to be on the document for a certain amount of time.

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