Plugin Has Stopped Accumulating Data

Hi there!

If the 24 hours tab is showing data, it means that WPP is correctly registering information. Can you please share your site’s URL?

https://www.gameindustry.com

If it is correctly showing information, then we have had people viewing the exact same pages the exact same times for the last three days, which I find astronomically unlikely. Also, all of the popular posts from the “last 24 hours” total 36 views, and we had far more than that according to our site statistics.

Plugin seems to be updating the views count correctly. Are you using a caching plugin?

But, before the last update, the most popular post in the last 24 hours has always gotten 80-some views. The most popular one in the list now has 7 views. And it has had the same number of views for the last three days. So either something really weird happened with our viewers’ habits, or the totals we are seeing in the settings are incorrect.

I was using WP Super Cache, but I had been using is before the last update and everything worked fine.

You might need to clear WPSC’s cache, since the way the plugin updates the views count has changed.

Okay, I cleared the cache. I guess we will wait and see.

Also, it might be worth reading this.

Okay, I ended up clearing the caches of both WPSC and WPPP. Also, I set the Ajaxify widget to Enabled in the WPPP settings. It now seems to be accumulating views correctly.

If you knew the new version changed the way the plugin updates the views count changed, causing a possibility of interference by caching plugins, you might have said something in the version notes or something.

Anyway, thanks.

If you knew the new version changed the way the plugin updates the views count changed, causing a possibility of interference by caching plugins, you might have said something in the version notes or something.

Yep, I was thinking about that too after the last reply. I’ll add a note once WPP 3.0.3 is released, better late than never.

Looks like I spoke too soon. Since clearing both caches, it only logged a total of 25 views between 15 different posts. I am fairly certain we had more post views than that in the last 8 hours.

I have taken a screenshot of the “last 24 hours” view stats, and will compare it with what I see tomorrow.

Okay, while the totals have changed slightly over the last 8 hours or so, the total amount of views listed are significantly lower (like by a factor of 10) than what had been accumulated before the last update, as well as different categories of post showing up as more popular than before. What in the new version account for this?

The part responsible for updating the views count is basically the sameas in version 2.3.7. The only thing that changed is the reintroduction of the AJAX feature – necessary to keep bots / spiders from incrementing the views count (something 2.3.7 wasn’t doing).