Number of participants exceeds page views

[dinkengraven]

Hi there! We recently added Split to our project and have noticed that the number of participants far exceeds the number of page views that we've recorded by as much as 4 times.

I read through the issues in this repo and found something similar reported in #302, but there was not much activity and the issue was subsequently closed.

Has anyone else experienced this issue? If so, do you have any idea what may be causing it?

[cchawn]

This might be because of the way Split handles test-resets after a user converts.
https://github.com/splitrb/split#reset-after-completion

The ab_finished method has the option reset defaulting to true, this determines if a user will start another test session (ie: become a new participant).

You can pass the option reset:false to your ab_finished method, and it should solve this issue

[tavyy]

Same issue. Adding reset: false didn't fix it for me. The traffic is coming from some Paid FB Campaigns. I added the Facebot and other bots on ignore list and still have the same behaviour.

Seeing Participants almost 6 times more than real FB clicks.

[rogerkk]

Anyone found a solution yet? Seeing the same, the test is set up with resettable: false in the yaml config.