# of views counter on main site content

[.josh]

I just noticed that it even increments when you go to the next page of the tutorial/article/whatever.  I know it's possible for people to follow some link to a specific page of something, so that should count as a view, but I think having it increment on every page view like that is misleading, artificially bloating the numbers, etc.. (I'm sure this was not intentional, of course).

 

So I was thinking, maybe you could throw the IP address in a session var and check if it's there and the same from page to page, and not increment it if it is?  Or alternatively, throw a GET var onto your pagination to check if the person accessed the page from one of the other pagination links.  If they did, don't increment the counter. 

[Daniel0]

For logged in members we could track which things they've read and prune log entries that are x days old. For everybody else we could use cookies.