I recently got stuck on this: 
How is that possible?
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- 6\$\begingroup\$ I've seen the view counter take a minute or two to update before, its probably all cached data. \$\endgroup\$Mark Loeser– Mark Loeser2011-01-25 17:05:31 +00:00Commented Jan 25, 2011 at 17:05
- 1\$\begingroup\$ What's weird is the view count on Area51. Why hasn't that updated yet? \$\endgroup\$Andrew– Andrew2011-01-25 18:10:50 +00:00Commented Jan 25, 2011 at 18:10
- 1\$\begingroup\$ I would of thought the cache flushing mechanism for the views would be at the same time as the answer and the votes, why would you need to separate them ? \$\endgroup\$RobertPitt– RobertPitt2011-01-25 18:39:19 +00:00Commented Jan 25, 2011 at 18:39
- \$\begingroup\$ @RobertPitt, totally agree. Still listening... \$\endgroup\$sh03– sh032011-01-25 18:47:57 +00:00Commented Jan 25, 2011 at 18:47
- \$\begingroup\$ Mine just got 2 votes and 1 view :) \$\endgroup\$s.m.– s.m.2011-01-25 20:39:33 +00:00Commented Jan 25, 2011 at 20:39
- \$\begingroup\$ @s.m, It's just Jeff's power to double-vote \$\endgroup\$sh03– sh032011-03-01 16:51:17 +00:00Commented Mar 1, 2011 at 16:51
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According to this answer on meta.SO view count updates are buffered (not written to the db right away) so it's not unusual for the view count to be a little behind, especially for a question that was just posted.
