Number of views

Hello,

I’ve encountered the following inconvenience regarding the number of views of a thread.

Views are only counted when the person viewing the thread is on-line. And I’ve just noticed that viewers who follow the link displayed in the “Last Post” column are not counted at all regardless of their status.

I think it’s rather discouraging to see that nobody has viewed one's postings so it would be nice if off-line viewers would be counted too.

Thank you,
:@: lice

The number of views is only counted for members because otherwise it count refresh, new posts, search engine robots and a lot of other things that are not real views.

This count is just to see if a subject is more popular than another. After few months it's not necessary to see 2 000 views just because Google index your board too much...

Gizmo wrote: This count is just to see if a subject is more popular than another. After few months it's not necessary to see 2 000 views just because Google index your board too much...

Yes, you have a point there with non-member views.

But my real problem is that even on-line members' views aren't counted if they enter the topic directly from the forum index. You see, in GENERAL ADMNI > CONFIGURATION+ I set Show the last topic titles on index. Consequently members can access the new topics directly and if they do so the number of views doesn't increase. I think this is a bug.

It was so devastating that I had to change that option and now I don't display the latest articles on the index anymore. I suppose it's all the same for a big a forum where you have tonnes of new topics in every sub-forum but I only had 5-6 new articles distributed in the different sub-forums so everybody looked them up by clicking on the topic name on the index. It was bizarre to see threads with 5-6 reply yet no views!

:@: lice

GIZMO wrote :Posted: Fri 7 Oct à 9:14

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The number of views is only counted for members because otherwise it count refresh, new posts, search engine robots and a lot of other things that are not real views.

This count is just to see if a subject is more popular than another. After few months it's not necessary to see 2 000 views just because Google index your board too much...

Read it may help.

Dark Byte,

Thank you for reposting Gizmo’s response. I’ve read it and it didn’t help. Maybe you’d like to read my reply too before supposing that I am completely blind...

I am complaining about views not being counted for logged on members.

Thanks,
@lice

Gizmo is a very busy person :DD

My Forum is not popular and I need to know how many non-registered people are actually reading the threads. I see you don't count non-members but you must at least shown the views in Admin Statistics and it's okay if it includes views triggered by search engines, etc.

If the above is not address I will have to switch to another free forum.

Thanks
Saied Nourian
President of Runiter Company
www.runiter.com