Social networks are the most popular web resources on the Internet, and Vkontakte is at the top of their rating in Russia. Every day, thousands, if not millions, of users actively use the social network. The main purpose of logging into VK is watching videos, listening to music or studying photos of friends. Among all the content, personal photos of users are of the greatest interest.
Quite often, there is a desire to know those who viewed your page, and thus determine the interest of a person. Odnoklassniki has long had the function of viewing page visitors, and this is the second project from Mail, VK belongs to them. And yet, is it possible to find out the identities of users who have viewed photos on VKontakte?
Can I find out who viewed my photos on VK?
In the vast majority of social networks, there is no access to information about the personalities of those who viewed your photos. Except when they themselves liked or left a comment under the photo. The same applies to VKontakte. VK’s internal privacy policy and attitude to personal data do not allow this function to be implemented.
Why is there no such possibility:
- There is no desire to allocate separate server hardware for storing and calculating the required data. In addition, this function will require scripts to work, their development will cost a considerable amount;
- Striving to preserve user privacy and economic damage. If you conduct a survey about the need for the function of viewing individuals who have viewed photos, users will be divided into 3 fronts. One will absolutely not care, the second will be fundamentally against it, and only a third will want to see this opportunity. Mail does not want to lose traffic, because after the implementation of the function, many users will begin to restrain themselves from visiting the pages. No one wants to be seen under the photograph of their enemy or ex.
Simply put, there is no standard viewing function and most likely never will be. Moreover, this feature is not provided for in Odnoklassniki either; only account visitors can be viewed here. However, there are other ways to find out this information, which will be discussed in the material.
How do I know who has viewed my photos?
There are 3 ways to identify users’ identities.
Key recommendations:
- Examine likes and comments. Most users like photos mechanically or just by accident, so quite a few people who have viewed them can be seen in the likes menu. To view users, hover over the like image under the photo. There are also comments, they are also easy to identify those who are especially interested in photography;
- View reposts. This can be done if the photo is on a community wall or personal page. After hovering over the “Share” icon, the entire list of users who have forwarded your photo appears;
- Use third party applications. This is the most functional way, because it helps to calculate not only those who viewed the page, but also to obtain additional information.
Applications for tracking visitors to your own VK page
One of the best ways to see the personalities of guests who have visited a page is to use the dedicated My Guests app. It is possible to install it directly in VK by link… A selection of links for different platforms will appear on the landing page. It is enough to choose a suitable link and follow it. In the PC version of the application, an advertisement first appears, you can safely close it. Now the user is inside the application.
The first tab “Guests” displays information about the guests of the page. To always know the identity of visitors, just add the application to your bookmarks using the Ctrl + D hotkeys. In addition, the My Guests application has a number of useful functions, such as a scanner. The essence of the scanner is to record all visits to your personal profile.
Now the app is giving out PRO mode for 2 weeks for free to all new users. You just need to be added to the official group of the application.
The disadvantage of the application is that it is impossible to see everyone who saw a personal photo on the social network. But there is an opportunity to examine the list of all users who entered the page. It also indicates the duration of the visit, how long ago it was and a lot of interesting information.
Photo display through “My guests”
In this application, a special section has been developed in which it is possible to exchange likes. This is a paid feature, you need to pay coins for it. The application currency is sold for votes and it costs 2000 coins for 10 votes. After purchase, it becomes possible to exchange likes, each costs 2 units. Thus, it is possible to “sell” and “buy” likes under the photos.
You can view and like up to 100 photos every day. To find out the number of likes earned, you should open the “My impressions” menu.
The add-on for VK “My Guests” can help increase the number of new guests on the page. This is a paid service that initially costs 5 votes. After ordering the service, up to 1500 new guests will visit the commercial or personal page.
The application also has a section “Fans”, where there is a list of the most active guests. The user determines the leader’s places independently. There is a top of the most active for different periods of time: a week, a month, the entire period of time. The application contains data on their actions on the personal page for the selected period of time. The number of reposts, likes, comments, etc. is indicated.
The application can be untied by transferring personal data to the profile. This will eliminate the need to manually view guests who have visited the page. The app generates a custom link that displays relevant data about guest activity.
The number of views of the entry in VK
The VKontakte service has long acquired a mechanism for counting the number of views of each post. If before the only indicator of popularity was likes and reposts, today another parameter has been added – views. The function is in every version of VK, both on the website and in the smartphone application.
Based on this data, the user can easily determine the audience’s interest in a particular post. The number of views allows you to create statistics on the popularity of specific topics in groups and on pages. The number of all views is indicated on the right side of the post (below it). It is important to understand that a view counts no matter how interested the user is. It doesn’t matter if he opened the post and made a comment or just flipped through the news feed.
By the way, views are counted not only on the page of the user who posted the post, but also on other pages that made the repost.
How to view your favorite photos in VK?
A small but useful digression from the topic – viewing photos that you liked and were marked with a like. Access to information is easy:
- Go to the “Settings” page from your profile.
- Click on the item “Customize the display of my menu items”.
- Among the entire list, you need to find “Bookmarks” and enable their display. It is important not to forget to “Save” the change.
- Open the main VK page and go to the “Bookmarks” tab in the menu on the left.
- View the history of posts that the user has liked or clicked on “Share”.
Today, there really is no way to view all the people who looked at my photos, but there is an alternative. Through the application “My Guests” it is easy to find out the activity on the page, the personality of the guests. This way you can keep track of who and what was doing on your page quite accurately.