On the Archive, a hit is registered every time someone clicks on a work to open it, with a few exceptions. If two clicks in a row come from the same IP address (and thus, the same computer) only the first one is registered. Moving between chapters in a work only counts as a single hit, not one per chapter. In addition, if you’re logged in, hits are not counted when you visit your own works.
Hits should be taken as only a very rough estimate of the number of people who have accessed a work. This is especially true if that work has multiple chapters, since it makes a difference whether a person read all the chapters at one sitting, or returned to the work multiple times.
Because AO3 has the option of viewing an entire work at once, registering hits on individual chapters could never be even roughly accurate.
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