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

For me the best way is to have a field in the question table and update it when the question is accessed

UPDATE Questions SET views = views + 1 WHERE QuestionID = x

Application Object: IMO is not scalable because the may end with lots of memory consumption as more questions are accessed.
Page_views table: no need to, you have to do a costly join after