Views are impressions – how many people saw the link. Clicks are the ones that actually click.
I like having both visible, but views are often incorrect when you use plain links. They only tend to be counted correctly if you use text links offered by the program.
I have had my upos and downs with Absolute but am doing all right with them now – not as good as I would like to see, but it’s slowly coming along. I hope the growth accelerates a bit next year.