Creator Portal: what exactly does the template "Views" counter measure?

Questions
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I published my first free templates last week, and I’m trying to read my Creator Portal numbers honestly. Two things I couldn’t figure out from the docs or by searching here:

  1. What counts as a “View” on the dashboard (creators.n8n.io) — is it a visit to the template’s page, or does it also include card impressions in search results / the Explore listing?
  2. How the public counter relates to it. The public template page (n8n.io/workflows/…) also shows a view count, but for recently published templates it stays at 0 while the dashboard counter grows — older templates from other creators do show non-zero public views. Is the public number a batch-synced copy of the same counter, and if so, roughly what’s the sync cadence?

Not a complaint — the dashboard is genuinely useful. I’d just rather understand what the number means than guess. Thanks!

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Hi @the43sunsets Welcome!
The Creator Portal’s definition of a View is not published, not in the docs and not on creators.n8n.io, so any answer about page visits versus card impressions would be a guess dressed up as a fact.
The other end of it is documented. The template library reads templates from the public API, and each template object carries two view fields, totalViews and recentViews. Read yours directly:

https://api.n8n.io/templates/workflows/<your-template-id>

Poll that once a day alongside the dashboard number and you get the relationship without guessing: if totalViews stays at 0 while the dashboard climbs, the public counter is lagging or scoped differently, and how the two move over a week tells you the cadence.
For the definitions behind both counters, help@n8n.io is the only place that can answer it authoritatively.

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Thank you — the API endpoint was exactly what I needed. I ran the comparison right away, and for both of my templates the API’s totalViews matches the Creator Portal dashboard number exactly (42=42, 2=2). So the dashboard counter and the API are the same counter, and the public page showing 0 for recent templates is just display sync lag. That resolves the practical side of my question — what a “view” counts as can stay unpublished, as long as the number is consistent, and it is. Marking this as the solution.