View count for articles

[Sceko]

Add the ability to show the number of visitors to articles
Like enable disable functions

[DavidDarnes]

Hey! I think @Kevin covered this fairly well in another thread:

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@afern247 Ghost doesn’t track views. Typical use-case is having Ghost behind a CDN or cache so most page views won’t actually hit the Ghost server for it to be able to track page views. If you want statistics/analytics it’s recommended to use a 3rd party service such as Google Analytics or similar that is designed for that purpose. Some of them may have APIs that you can query in your client-side JS or via a small microservice of your own to get your “most viewed” post list.

[topol]

Hi David!
The use-case you mentioned is covered by Ghost calling it’s backed from Javascript to record a page view. I agree with a topic started that displaying this in the article list is a nice piece of data to give the reader.

[bert_o_t]

I’d love to be able to see article views on Ghost, not interested in third-party analytics, just a simple built-in post-view counter would work wonders.