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I would imagine that they cache the page contents and hence hit a URL only once in a certain period of time, thus skewing any analytics built around this.


Yeah it's cached by Facebook. That's why if you want to change your meta and/or open graph tags info, you need to feed your page to Facebook's Url Linter (https://developers.facebook.com/tools/lint/).


you can also programmatically force it to refresh the cache via a POST to https://graph.facebook.com/?id=http://google.com&scrape=...




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