# Get the most viewed posts

**URL:** <https://forum.ghost.org/t/get-the-most-viewed-posts/2787>\
**Category:** Developer help\
**Created:** [August 31, 2018, 5:29am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/get-the-most-viewed-posts/2787 "2018-08-31T05:29:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![defenestration](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e0b2c6/32.png) [@defenestration](https://forum.ghost.org/u/defenestration)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2018, 5:29am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/get-the-most-viewed-posts/2787/1 "2018-08-31T05:29:35Z")

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I want to make a list of the most viewed posts in the last month. How can I do it in Ghost? I’ll be okay with updating the view counter every few hours or every time a post is added.

If it’s possible, can someone guide me in the right direction? What should I do and use? Something like Google Analytics? Add some javascript to the theme? Are there any ready-to-use solutions? I’m sure someone has already faced this problem.

Thank you.

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**Author:** ![diomed](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/diomed/32/1678_2.png) [@diomed](https://forum.ghost.org/u/diomed)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2018, 2:44pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/get-the-most-viewed-posts/2787/2 "2018-08-31T14:44:15Z")

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> [@Sort posts by popularity](https://forum.ghost.org/t/sort-posts-by-popularity/2369/2):
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> @afern247 Ghost doesn’t track views. Typical use-case is having Ghost behind a CDN or cache so most page views won’t actually hit the Ghost server for it to be able to track page views. If you want statistics/analytics it’s recommended to use a 3rd party service such as Google Analytics or similar that is designed for that purpose. Some of them may have APIs that you can query in your client-side JS or via a small microservice of your own to get your “most viewed” post list.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/ghost2/original/2X/b/ba9ce5100b8bb264586f4f572545596b2ce3f081.png) [@system](https://forum.ghost.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 2:44pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/get-the-most-viewed-posts/2787/3 "2018-09-14T14:44:20Z")

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