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?

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Answer 1

Instead of making a database call everytime the database is hit, I would increment a counter using a cache object and depending on how many visits you get to your site every day you have send the page hits to the database every 100th hit to the site. This is waay faster then updating the database on every single hit.

Or another solution is analyzing the IIS log file and updating hits every 30min through a windows service. This is what I have implemented and it work wonders.