Page View Counter like on StackOverFlow

Question

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?

Factoring in Performanc

Answer 1

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.