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The number of views you see in the page’s pop-up window is based on the property ViewsLifeTime which is updated by SharePoint Usage Analytics every 15 days. As a bottomline we can conclude, that the view counts are intended to work like this.
If so how to get the info You can access some analytics from your site settings page in the section Site Collection Administration called Popularity and Search reports. If that’s not enough you need to use a 3rd party tool. Reference: SharePoint 2013 Web Analytics Report – Where is it?
What’s the total number of views on this page?
For this page total view is 3910 but when I generate Popularity Trends for this page the total no of view count is different ( 3894 ). Could you please suggest me how to debug this or what are the steps I need to follow to fix this. I have completely no idea from where to start debugging. This is based on a feature called TailTrimming parameter.
TailTrimming determines when the usage analytics reports should be updated. By default, the reports are updated when the item is updated at least 3 times within the last 24 hours. This is designed to balance the load usage of your SharePoint system, as low usage items aren’t getting new reports as frequently as commonly accesses items.
There are two ways that you can access the Popularity Trends report for an item: On your catalog, select the item for which want to view the Popularity Trends report. In the ribbon, click ITEMS –> Popularity Trends. On the Most Popular Items page, click Popularity Trends.
How to view usage statistics in SharePoint Server?
Here are the steps: On your authoring site, go to your catalog. Click the LIST tab -> Most Popular Items. On the Most Popular Items page, use the menu to select the usage event for which you want to view statistics. You can view statistics for the Recommendations Displays usage event in the View the Popularity Trends report for an item.