Do we want to know the visits per page?
Counting page visits is possible, and it is an intricate part of the displayed details on some sites.
I was considering asking for it as feature request, but I wonder if that is information we want displayed.
The are positives and negatives both to displaying and not displaying the visitor count.
Do we want to know, display or publish the visits per page?
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Right now, I'd say not. Counting views is a bit of a pain behind the scenes, and showing it doesn't gain us much - and might just reveal that most posts have none at all or very few.
If there's specific posts that someone wants to know about, we have in-house analytics running and can pull stats from that.
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I'd say no, for now.
Counting page views is a bit tricky, at best.
If you only include signed in users then basic counting is easy, but counting unique visitors is more difficult, typically requiring a database post to log every visit.
If you include all traffic (including not-logged-in), then you have the search-engine/robot problem added to the mix and need to filter out those visits or else, with a low-traffic site, it becomes hard to tell the true traffic.
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