Come to think of it, if an individual LQT thread or comment gets viewed on its own, does the bump the pageview count for the whole talkpage?
Shouldn't, because they're just pages held in the threadspace and assembled by the extension in either Special:NewMessages or on a page with the useliquidthreads option. Maybe we are just that bizarrely popular!
Hmm, I have linked a few of your essays to people before.