By hruodland on

I just moved from Movabletype to Drupal, and am making use of the "link to node title" functionality to redirect visitors from the old MT entries to the new Drupal entries, e.g., the .htaccess file in my old MT archive directory is now full of lines like

Redirect permanent /archives/blog_entry.php http://mysite.com/title/blog+entry

It appears that visits that come in through that kind of redirect don't get counted toward the statistics in the "popular content" block. In other words, if "Blog entry" is /node/view/1 then the "popular content" statistics for "Blog entry" will include visits to it as http://mysite.com/node/view/1 but not as http://mysite.com/title/blog+entry.

Is there a fix for this? If not it's no catastrophe since presumably the problem will wear off as people stop trying to visit the old addresses. Still, if I'm right that this is an issue it might be viewed as a bug in the statistics module since "link to title" has general uses.