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The problem is two-fold: 1. The "views" is not necessarily helpful since it's not people actually "viewing" the website, but rather "fetching" the content. The fact someone fetched the content does not mean they actually viewed it. Perhaps they were scanning it for something, indexing the content, l...

A major problem that I have with a phpBB forum is that bots, spammers, crawlers, and other scripts keep bumping the view count. For a board I just started I already have a view counts of a few hundreds. It makes no sense. When a script that tries to harvest emails, post spam, etc. identifies its use...