Counter inflates on every refresh and reload
Each page refresh or reload adds a view, so counts inflate far beyond real visitors, including by 2 or 5 per refresh on custom post types.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
4 public reports · first reported 23 July 2016 · last reported 27 February 2024
What's going wrong
The Page View Count plugin increments the total on every page reload rather than once per visitor, so numbers climb quickly during testing or when visitors refresh.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 4 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
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