post access counter (Reads)... counting too much

By ibeardslee on 15 Jul 2007 at 10:02 UTC

Thought it would be great to be able to see the number of hits a pages gets, so I made the 'post access counter' visible. The problem is that it does too much counting.

A couple of people in my demo site have discovered that if they keep refreshing a page the number increments, this gives a (misguided) impression that a page is more popular than others - or that more people are interested in the page than actually are. Something saying 61 Reads - actually may have only been read by 6 people.

Is there a way to be able be more selective on those counts? Having some logic to limit the counting by user name or IP address?

Thoughts?

Comments

Accurate number of reads

Drupalace-1 commented 15 July 2007 at 12:57

Sorry, karearea, I have no answer at all. I'd like to see an answer to the same question, as I too want accurate counts of reads.

I'm posting this useless message so the thread will appear in my account's "Track" tab. Needless to say, if I find an answer, I'll post back here.

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Kilfinan commented 7 August 2007 at 08:19

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