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# Explore the Data

## Data Retention

| Portal Section                                 | Maximum Data Retention                                |
| ---------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------- |
| Page View Reports                              | 24 hours                                              |
| Investigation Page (when using Search filters) | 14 days                                               |
| Captcha Report                                 | 14 days                                               |
| All "Tops" Tables                              | 14 days (Investigation tab), 120 days (Dashboard tab) |
| Top Incidents (only)                           | 14 months                                             |
| All Graphs Over Time                           | 14 months                                             |

The dashboard's default time range is the **Last 1 hour** or the last time range selected

## Data Type

HUMAN Bot Defender Portal data is **Requests** based. Using Requests in the Dashboard and Investigation tabs allows HUMAN to:

* Provide **full visibility** into the website's traffic and provide more accurate information
* Enable **end-to-end investigation** capabilities across multiple tools and systems

Previously (in the legacy classic Portal) traffic was calculated based on an aggregation of Pageviews and Requests, bundled together to a single HUMAN Pageview.

## Pageviews (analytic and marketing tools)

A **pageview** is an instance of a website page being loaded (or reloaded) in a browser. Google Analytics and other marketing tools use this metric to track website traffic. Pageviews **rely on running Javascript**. When a website is accessed, the visitor's browser runs Javascript, and a request with the visitor’s information is sent to the website's servers.

## HUMAN Pageviews

A certain portion of websites’ traffic can originate from automated tools that don’t run Javascript. In order to take into account non-Javascript traffic, HUMAN created **HUMAN** **Pageviews**. This is an aggregation of Javascript pageviews and server requests bundled together as a single **HUMAN**  **Pageview**. This metric is different than the common pageview metric being used by analytics and marketing tools since they are based on Javascript only.

> **Note**
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> For some customers, the *Account Usage History*, in Platform Settings -> Usage, will show **Page Views**. This is aligned with the user’s agreed billing metric

## Requests

**Requests** measure how much traffic a server handles, including traffic from bots not running Javascript. Calls to a server can include page downloads, comments on a thread, “likes”, graphic or image views, or any other action on a website. Therefore the number of **Requests** is not identical to the number of pageviews, but it correlates to it. The request metric cannot be used by Javascript-based services such as common analytics and marketing tools since they don’t have access to the server traffic (they rely on Javascript only).

## Requests vs. Pageviews

* **Requests** include visitors that don't execute Javascript, including bots and crawlers. This is unlike pageviews, that only count visitors who run Javascript.
* **Requests** are used in industry web server metrics (e.g hits per second), calculating the load on the server. This is how developers, devOps and QA engineers can discover and analyze real-time daily usage, traffic spikes and potential attacks. This is unlike pageviews that only count indication of a page load, but not the number of actual requests to the website's server.
* **Requests** provide full visibility and analysis capabilities on the traffic. This is unlike pageviews that don't count visitors that don't run Javascript and requests that don't require the loading of a new page.

For more information, contact [HUMAN Support](/applications/human-customer-support)