Registering article "reads"

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But it’s quite obvious with the above method that I won’t get a true representation of the number of reads.

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From my experience, the only people that care about page impressions are marketeers, and they couldn't care less if the numbers are slightly inaccurate, they just want to see big numbers, which is probably why lots of sites now split content into multiple pages.
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