Some confusion about the traffic of github repo?

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As the pictures show below, the git clones of my repo is 26, and the visitor of my repo is 4. According to the literal meaning, the cloners means who look my repo page and decide to clone my repo to local or somewhere, and also, in the meantime, they should become the visitors of my repo. However, the traffic data of my repo shows that the results of visitors and cloners are much different from each other.

My insight of visitor and coloner is right? What is the GitHub official definition of the cloners and visitors? Or, the significant difference that shows on my picture just caused by the bug of GitHub.

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The command git clone http://url will clone the repo without visiting GitHub. Maybe your repo's name is an easy misspelling of another repo, or someone attempted to download all repos by cloning from a list of URLs, looking for loose passwords or doing statistical research.

It could be cloned by you from another IP (other home/TOR/VPN) or you told someone about the repo and someone cloned it without visiting the page.

Do you have a CI/CD server or a DevOps pipeline?

These will clone your repo automatically when triggered by a commit or a pull request.

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