User ID on Viewed Content Report

Former Member
Former Member

I'm looking at Reporting for Viewed Content. I have downloaded a list for all views of one particular piece of content for the last month. I have a two questions about what I'm looking at:

1. There are instances of a few counts at the exact same time by the exact same user. See pic. I'm guessing that it's because of page load time - the widgets on the page are triggering a count even though the user is still on the same page? Am I in ballpark?

2. This content is available to everyone, not just registered users. So, there are many view counts by "anonymous". Anonymous always has the same User ID. Is this because it's the same user, or is that simply an ID that is ascribed to every unregistered user? I'm guessing the latter, but I want to confirm.

Thanks!