Do views of /#comments page count as page views?

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  pinionpost · Member · Oct 13, 2012 at 4:39 am

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  When a visitor clicks to expand the comments section on an individual post on my site, since it technically loads a new URL (one ending in /#comments) does that get counted as a second page view in my totals, or is the # a tag that WordPress uses to filter out those secondary views?

  Basically, I want to know if visitors looking at my comments are artificially inflating my page views or not.

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  raincoaster · Member · Oct 13, 2012 at 5:51 am

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  Yes, it counts as a second view. And I wouldn’t call that artificial inflation. You must drop the idea that each hit is one viewer.