HitCounter

A program or code snippet to keep record of the hits (views) of a web page (or atomic hypercontent) on the wiki.

It’s another way of knowing what people are interested in, so you know what to read yourself.

Possibilities

The counter can be incremented if IP is not equal (the user is not just refreshing the page) or be incremented anyway.

You can also check the cookie and only increment the counter when it’s not set – this will give you mostly unique visitors (for some value of unique).

The counter can be an image or other object (iframe?) embedded in the page, so that only the counter has to be reloaded and the page itself can be cached.

The image/other object can be actually served by a script separate from the wiki engine itself.

Likewise the site statistic can shed light on ratios hit per periods, ie, Views/day, Views/mounth, etc.

Problems

This requires disabling page caching in various proxy, reverse proxy and even local (in memory, on disk) page caches, making it impossible to have CacheablePages and multiplying the load and bandwidth used by the wiki engine.

Implementations

• Implemented: Oddmuse UsemodKr
• Developing:
• Intend to Develop:
• Considering:
• Rejected:

See also

• http://www.muquit.com/muquit/software/Count/Count.html

Discussion

How about a HitCounter or even a PageHitCounter? – RadomirDopieralski

You’re right, HitCounter. – JuanmaMP

And what about to include these kind of properties useful for indexing schemas on an unique page that included the property an its indexing?, for instance HitCounter on HitCounterIndexing (or HitCounterList), OrphanedPages on OrphanedPagesIndexing (or OrphanedPagesList), etc?. Mabye separate, transcluded? – JuanmaMP

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