What is the best way to implement the page view counter like the ones they have here on the site where each question has a \"Views\" counter?
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I've made two observations on the stackoverflow views counter:
There's a link element in the header that handles triggering the count update. For this question, the markup looks like this:
I imagine you could hit that url to update the viewcount without ever actually viewing the page, but I haven't tried it.
I had a uservoice ticket, where the response from Jeff indicated that views are not incremented from the same ip twice in a row.