View counter in journals

[Captain]

Is the view counter working in journals?

 

[theWatcher]

Mine is increasing... don't know if it is accurate or not.

 

[reverie.]

It should work, but it’s very delayed.

We did, however, recently make the journal section invisible to guests as a lot of members write/publish stuff that shouldn’t be broadcasted beyond the community.

 

[Sync]

I was recently wondering about the View Counter in general and how it gets triggered - not specifically related to journals, though.

 

[reverie.]

It is triggered by every ‘click’, but the counter is very delayed, so it will suddenly jump up a few numbers, and other times it will seem as tho it’s not working/doesn’t move.

 

[Vekseid]

It only gets displayed when the cron updates the table.

The Xenforo devs believe it's better for performance.

 

[fareuther]

Would be nice to have a explanation how it really works somewhere

 

[Vekseid]

Different softwares count views in different ways.

In phpBB and its derivatives, every page view is counted. Refresh page, view counter goes up.

In SMF/Elkarte (Elliquiy), views are only counted on a unique session visit. Refresh page, view counter only goes up if your session has expired (about a half hour, generally).

In vBulletin/Xenforo (what we run), views are only counted once for a given user. Refresh page, view counter only goes up if you haven't seen the thread before, or if a new guest session views it.

In XF it's further complicated by being tracked in a separate view table. This only gets merged with the threads table (what you see as views) every hour or so.

 

[Ryees]

In vBulletin/Xenforo (what we run), views are only counted once for a given user. Refresh page, view counter only goes up if you haven't seen the thread before, or if a new guest session views it.

In XF it's further complicated by being tracked in a separate view table. This only gets merged with the threads table (what you see as views) every hour or so.

So does this mean that a view counter for any given thread tells you the number of unique users that have viewed it, instead of how many times it's been clicked?

 

[Cat]

So does this mean that a view counter for any given thread tells you the number of unique users that have viewed it, instead of how many times it's been clicked?

Yes

 

[reverie.]

So does this mean that a view counter for any given thread tells you the number of unique users that have viewed it, instead of how many times it's been clicked?

I find this very hard to believe for some reason I refuse to believe that my threads get “so many” new members clicking into them after I post.

 

[Sync]

I find this very hard to believe for some reason I refuse to believe that my threads get “so many” new members clicking into them after I post.

Maybe the view counter is unique views per post...? So if I click onto your RT five times the counter goes up once; but then you bump it with a new post, and the counter goes up again because I've viewed that new post (even though it's just "bump")...?

 

[reverie.]

Maybe the view counter is unique views per post...? So if I click onto your RT five times the counter goes up once; but then you bump it with a new post, and the counter goes up again because I've viewed that new post (even though it's just "bump")...?

That makes a lot more sense!!