Stats Show 2 Hits When Viewing Main Page (index.php)

Worker Joined: Jan 22, 2007 Posts: 104

For some reason, when the main page is viewed, the stats show 2 hits being made. Any idea what the call for updating the stats is so I can grep the theme and see if it's being called more than once?

Note, it only shows 2 hits on the main page. It shows 2 hits for everyone, not just the admin. All other pages only have 1 hit being registered (as expected).

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

grep won't necessarily tell you that. It could be that the theme is being called twice for some reason. When you call your main page do you see it being loaded twice? It might happen really quick so you have to look closely.

Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 1:04 pm

No, it doesn't appear to be loading twice. There's lots of pictures / content. I think I could tell if it were displaying two times.

Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 1:09 pm

grepping the theme probably won't help you as the stats are done through the header.php file. Towards the end of the script you will see include_once('includes/counter.php');. That's where the stats are updated.

Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 1:28 pm

Weird, I don't see any duplicate calls, and everything looks normal. I wonder if this is another 'GoDaddy' issue.

Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 3:11 pm

Did you try just looking for counter in your public_html folder?

Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 4:26 pm

No, but this may be yet another GoDaddy issue. I'll post back on whether it's still occurring after I have switched providers. Thanks for the help guys.

registered · Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 12:47 am

You could put some code to see whether includes/counter.php is actually being called more than once

Code:




if (!defined('COUNTED)) { 


  define('COUNTED',true);


} else {


  die('includes/counter.php is being called more than once');


}