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My GitHub repository shows that it's been cloned 7 times by 4 different users, but it shows that there's only 1 unique visitor to the same repository. How come that's possible?
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Can the owner of the repo see when someone clones it? No, they cannot. If I go to one of your repositories and clone it to my local hard drive, the owner will not be able to view that activity.
If you are logged in to GitHub then your own page views won't be counted. Visitors is the total visits to your repo. Unique visitors refers to the number of individual users who have visited your repository and these are only counted once, regardless of how many times they visit the repo.
If your project is hosted on GitHub, you can view how many people land on your project and where they come from. From your project's page, click “Insights”, then “Traffic”. On this page, you can see: Total page views: Tells you how many times your project was viewed.
When you clone a repository, you copy the repository from GitHub.com to your local machine. Cloning a repository pulls down a full copy of all the repository data that GitHub.com has at that point in time, including all versions of every file and folder for the project.
Visitors are people who visit your github page. Clones are when people do git clone, which doesn't involve visiting the site at all.
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