Registering article "reads"

[eluser]iainco[/eluser]
Sure, but I'm not sure if that would make too much difference. I don't think it matters how long it takes a person to get through a news article.

I just want it so that if I view the same article once a day, it will count as 7 views after one week.

But if I viewed the article 10 times in 30 minutes it would only count as 3 views, or something like that.

I need it to be able to determine which articles are more popular than others, but I've also got a rating mechanism which requires the number of times an article as been viewed.