Deleting the counter definitely

[Sirio-Astarot]

Hello, I propose that the counter of visits of articles be deleted of definitive way, because it is not simply useful, this native function should give step in future versions to extensions like Content Statistics or external tools like Google Analytics.

Old age does that I propose it and even persists capriciously, in addition to occupy space in the list of articles.

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File: controller.php
components\com_content

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if ($vName == 'article')
{
	// Get/Create the model
	if ($model = $this->getModel($vName))
	{
		$model->hit();
	}
}

File: default.php
administrator\components\com_content\views\articles\tmpl

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<th width="5%">
<?php echo JHtml::_('grid.sort', 'JGLOBAL_HITS', 'a.hits', $listDirn, $listOrder); ?>
</th>

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<td class="center">
<?php echo (int) $item->hits; ?>
</td>

[SharkyKZ]

Removing core functionality and suggesting to use a paid 3rd party extension is just plain silly. And external tools like Google Analytics can never be as accurate as native.