a) the actual total views are about twice as high as the Ads Pages stats. I'm assuming this is because many views are of the forums and not subject to ads?
yes, precisely.
b) are the no-ads stats subtracted from the total pages stats, or are they separate numbers?
no ads/opted are a part of the ads pages total, not the all pages total
c) we closed contributions sometime in January. The money we had was put into effect on 2-12, and amounted to about 935000 views. I presumed that this would be applied to every single hit and the total would be freely plundered until dry. It's also my understanding that the views purchased through donations are reflected as the No Ads/Opted column.
yes, no ads/opted show the usage of your ad-free page views. Members with supporter accounts do not use those views.
1) shouldn't the Opted views therefore equal 100% of the Total ad pages views? Why are they so much smaller? No one at our board reported ads while those views were being used.
As I said in the previous point, supporter views do not use your ad-free page views.
2) Through the contributions panel in the Control Center we were able to watch those 935K views be sucked away, until it ran down to 0 on about 2/28. Sure enough, members reported seeing ads, and that's where we stand now. So if the ad-free views ran out, shouldn't the Opted stats be down to 0 after 2/28?
no, although I can see your thinking. When you are not paying for gold, it's still drawing the stats as if you were, otherwise you'd not have any way of calculating what gold would cost you.
yes, precisely.
b) are the no-ads stats subtracted from the total pages stats, or are they separate numbers?
no ads/opted are a part of the ads pages total, not the all pages total
c) we closed contributions sometime in January. The money we had was put into effect on 2-12, and amounted to about 935000 views. I presumed that this would be applied to every single hit and the total would be freely plundered until dry. It's also my understanding that the views purchased through donations are reflected as the No Ads/Opted column.
yes, no ads/opted show the usage of your ad-free page views. Members with supporter accounts do not use those views.
1) shouldn't the Opted views therefore equal 100% of the Total ad pages views? Why are they so much smaller? No one at our board reported ads while those views were being used.
As I said in the previous point, supporter views do not use your ad-free page views.
2) Through the contributions panel in the Control Center we were able to watch those 935K views be sucked away, until it ran down to 0 on about 2/28. Sure enough, members reported seeing ads, and that's where we stand now. So if the ad-free views ran out, shouldn't the Opted stats be down to 0 after 2/28?
no, although I can see your thinking. When you are not paying for gold, it's still drawing the stats as if you were, otherwise you'd not have any way of calculating what gold would cost you.
