hi

I want to track how many times a permalink page is viewed. I have added the code and it works in a fashion. However what I don’t understand is that if I refresh the page in my browser it increases the numbers of view by TWO instead of one.

Does anyone know why this is happening and how to stop i?

You can see it here:
http://mobsocnet.com/index.php/dailynews/permalink/social_networking_conference_london_2008/

Just refresh and see it increment by TWO each time :-(

The code on the permalink page includes this

>>
{exp:weblog:entries weblog=”{my_weblog}” orderby=“date” sort=“desc” limit=“15” track_views=“one”}
>> Number of times this page has been viewed: {view_count_one}

I might be using this > track_views=“one” < on another page - should I change that use of this code to say this > track_views=“two” < ?

Thanks
Steve

Hi, Steve. If you change to track_views=“two” on a different page, does the first one go back to incrementing by one?

Which EE version and Build are you running? You can find that information at the bottom of any EE control panel page.

Aside from getting that counting correctly, i’d recommend Google Analytics (google.com/analytics) for your site in order to gather the most/accurate information. It’s free and easy to implement. Just my 2 cents!

hi Sue

Thanks for your quick response. I have now fixed the problem.

On the permalink page I had the code > track_views=“one” < within TWO sets of {exp:weblog:entries} on the same page and when I removed the code > track_views=“one” < from one of them - the counter increment went up by only 1 on a web page refresh.

All sorted
Thank you Sue.

Also Thanks Jack

I have just added Google Analytics to my site. Looks like good info will flow from it!
Cheers
Steve

Thanks for the assist, Jack.

3Gsteve, glad you were able to figure out the problem. Please don’t hesitate to post again if needed.