https://forums.webwiz.net/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:51:19 +0000 Thu, 19 Jan 2006 09:54:17 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.08 360 https://forums.webwiz.net/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=17919 https://forums.webwiz.net/forum_images/web_wiz_forums.png https://forums.webwiz.net/ https://forums.webwiz.net/view-number-behaving-oddly_topic17919_post97705.html#97705 Author: WebWiz-Bruce
Subject: 17919
Posted: 19 January 2006 at 9:54am

Then as I said previously the incrementing of the view count is done in a procedule way, by reading in the view count, add 1 to it, and save it to the database.

The only way it will increment twice is that if for some reason the file (page) is being requested more than once.

This could be to do with your server setup, but my guess it is more linkly to do with ad blocking, AV, firewall, etc. software that you are running on your PC's that are effecting it by also sending a request to the file (page).
]]> Thu, 19 Jan 2006 09:54:17 +0000 https://forums.webwiz.net/view-number-behaving-oddly_topic17919_post97705.html#97705 https://forums.webwiz.net/view-number-behaving-oddly_topic17919_post97670.html#97670 Author: rac04
Subject: 17919
Posted: 18 January 2006 at 5:56pm

Hi

    Maybe I'm missing something here -- we don't use AdWords
    on our site, and I'm using a licenced version of the forum, so
    your AdWords reference is being ignored, right?

R.
]]> Wed, 18 Jan 2006 17:56:56 +0000 https://forums.webwiz.net/view-number-behaving-oddly_topic17919_post97670.html#97670 https://forums.webwiz.net/view-number-behaving-oddly_topic17919_post97663.html#97663 Author: WebWiz-Bruce
Subject: 17919
Posted: 18 January 2006 at 5:34pm

I have fixed this issue for the next beta version of version 8.

In version 8 the detection is much better, so I have made it so that the view count doesn't increment when the Posts page is indexed by a search engine spider.
]]> Wed, 18 Jan 2006 17:34:11 +0000 https://forums.webwiz.net/view-number-behaving-oddly_topic17919_post97663.html#97663 https://forums.webwiz.net/view-number-behaving-oddly_topic17919_post97652.html#97652 Author: jeffdaro
Subject: 17919
Posted: 18 January 2006 at 4:31pm

Any idea which page is the culprit? I'll test on my end too.]]> Wed, 18 Jan 2006 16:31:29 +0000 https://forums.webwiz.net/view-number-behaving-oddly_topic17919_post97652.html#97652 https://forums.webwiz.net/view-number-behaving-oddly_topic17919_post97645.html#97645 Author: jeffdaro
Subject: 17919
Posted: 18 January 2006 at 3:45pm

I was the one that reported this view count issue, and I do have Google Ad's on my site, so that would tend to make me agree with your initial analysis.]]> Wed, 18 Jan 2006 15:45:22 +0000 https://forums.webwiz.net/view-number-behaving-oddly_topic17919_post97645.html#97645 https://forums.webwiz.net/view-number-behaving-oddly_topic17919_post97139.html#97139 Author: WebWiz-Bruce
Subject: 17919
Posted: 13 January 2006 at 3:55pm

The logic of the code is procedule so it is impossible to increment by more than 1 unless the page is called more than once.

I have been looking into the adsense spder after spooting some strange stuff in the active users page on this site and it does seem that if you have adsense ads on a page the Google/Adsense spider always hits the page immediately aafter it is viewed, which would incerent the view number.

The only other way it could be happening if that if for some reason you have some software running on your machine that means that page is called twice.
]]> Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:55:30 +0000 https://forums.webwiz.net/view-number-behaving-oddly_topic17919_post97139.html#97139 https://forums.webwiz.net/view-number-behaving-oddly_topic17919_post97134.html#97134 Author: rac04
Subject: 17919
Posted: 13 January 2006 at 3:47pm

Just checked, no guests listed at all. This behaviour is consistent - it happens every time, on every post .. wouldn't have thought that pointed to Adsense?
]]> Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:47:15 +0000 https://forums.webwiz.net/view-number-behaving-oddly_topic17919_post97134.html#97134 https://forums.webwiz.net/view-number-behaving-oddly_topic17919_post97133.html#97133 Author: WebWiz-Bruce
Subject: 17919
Posted: 13 January 2006 at 3:46pm

I shall have to look into making it so that in future versions this spider does not increment the page views.]]> Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:46:16 +0000 https://forums.webwiz.net/view-number-behaving-oddly_topic17919_post97133.html#97133 https://forums.webwiz.net/view-number-behaving-oddly_topic17919_post97132.html#97132 Author: WebWiz-Bruce
Subject: 17919
Posted: 13 January 2006 at 3:44pm

Someone else has reported this and I think I now know why.

I found out recently that with Google ads, Google sends out an Google/Adsense spider each time you view a page with Google ads on it that it has not indexed before, a few seconds after you visit it for the first time.

It's probably this spider indexing the page after your first view that is incrementing the number of views.

In version 7.x it doesn't recognise the Adsense spider in the active users page, but displays it as Unknown, have a look straight after to see if you have an Unknown Guest user listed in your active users page.


Edited by -boRg- - 13 January 2006 at 3:45pm]]> Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:44:00 +0000 https://forums.webwiz.net/view-number-behaving-oddly_topic17919_post97132.html#97132 https://forums.webwiz.net/view-number-behaving-oddly_topic17919_post97129.html#97129 Author: rac04
Subject: 17919
Posted: 13 January 2006 at 3:38pm

Hi there

    We're running WebWiz for a month or so, really pleased with it
    so far .. very nice piece of software.

    We've noticed one oddity -- every time a user opens a topic, the
    view count increments by two, rather than one. We're running
    the software on W2K3/IIS6, as a subdirectory of a main site.

    Any idea why this might be?

thanks,

    R.
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