Registering article "reads"

[eluser]xwero[/eluser]
maybe you are right but to fine tune your method further in the case of 10 times in 30 minutes the count should be 1 view if the viewing is consecutive. To check if the viewing of the article is consecutive you can check if the article is requested a second time after the first time expired within the reading time you set.

To be more concrete : reading started at 12.00 with a 10 minute reading time, so if the reader reloads the article before 12.20 it's 1 view. If the second time the reader loads the page is 12.12 it's still 1 view if the page is reloaded before 12.32, and so on.

I think with that system the reading time becomes important.