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Posted: 13 January 2006 at 3:38pm |
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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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Posted: 13 January 2006 at 3:44pm |
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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
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Posted: 13 January 2006 at 3:46pm |
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I shall have to look into making it so that in future versions this spider does not increment the page views.
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Posted: 13 January 2006 at 3:47pm |
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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?
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Posted: 13 January 2006 at 3:55pm |
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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.
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Posted: 18 January 2006 at 3:45pm |
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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.
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Posted: 18 January 2006 at 4:31pm |
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Any idea which page is the culprit? I'll test on my end too.
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Posted: 18 January 2006 at 5:34pm |
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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.
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