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I'd like to see sorting questions by views on the main page - that way it's possible to see what topics users are coming to a site for. We're having a discussion soon on how to push Ask.SqlServerCentral.com forward, and that would be a very useful bit of information to have... |
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Asked: 10 Aug '10, 09:47
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Last updated: 06 Sep '10, 12:01
Since that count doesn't count unique visitors since there are not any IP logged so, even if you press F5 the counter will increase making very easy to cheat. And also, bot spiders make that count to be unuseful.
In my opinion a view is a view. If you press F5 multiple times is because you either have a very compelling reason to do so, or you're bored. As for spiders, you can prevent spiders in the robots.txt file. People just don't seem to care. They care about everything related with SEO, but robots.txt???
It's very expensive to create sessions, and that is pretty much the only way to filter unique visitor views. If you really want to do that, you end up with thousands of sessions that were created just for the sake of filtering the view count.
One last thing, the word "views", means "number of views" and not "number of unique visitors to this question".
I'd be happy with just an ordering by views as they stand. If it was number of unique visitors to this question then it would be a different thing, and actually a) I don't care about that and b) If I did I would use something along the line of Google Analytics...