Block unfair hits

[promoitalia]

Dear Sir,

as you well know, visits to joomla articles (hits) increase by reloading the page and this is not fair. It is also true that if a person goes to read the same article several times in a day it is right that the reading increases.
Is it possible to block the wise ones that increase the readings to their article with F5 limiting the increase in visits after 1 hour?
If I do F5 continuously does not increase the reading, if I return to read it after an hour it is right to count a new hit.
I hope to solve with your advice,

best regards

Walter

[effrit]

i guess it will not solve the problem unless you close the articles from unregistered visitors, because hundreds of bots will increase the counter.

[promoitalia]

it would be enough to set the time limiting with ip?
but I do not know how I can do it

[KianWilliam]

You mean based on $remoteAddr you want to allow visitors of your site read your articles based on a timescale and after that for like 24 hours they are not able to read more?
Kian William

[effrit]

i mean what today this counter show unreal hight numbers because of many site scanners/bots so you cant use it as valid visitor counter unless u block content from unregistered users.
and IP isnt enough because of proxy servers.

[promoitalia]

what concerns me to limit are the young guys who go on an acquaintance's article and with F5 the visits increase. I just block these, not even novice hackers

[KianWilliam]

How could you know those visitors are young or old? how you check it?
Kian William

[promoitalia]

I know because they told me

[effrit]

i guess u can try increase "session time" for 2-3 hours. if i understand it right this counter must use session or cookies.
but this is not recommended via increasing security risks.
so the right solution will be making plugin for decreasing hitcounter based on cookies or even IP (in this case your DB size will increased).
example
https://joomla.stackexchange.com/questi ... -the-pages

[KianWilliam]

I can tell you what to do to limit time access to an article for registered users and prevent them from being logged for a spell of time but your viewers could be of any age unless you develop a form that requires a copy of birth-cirtificate. There might be other ways but I developed this simple logic as I am typing, if it could be of use, I will be happy to help you.
Kian William

[promoitalia]

it is not a counter but hits the joomla article
it would be enough for me to limit the bill at any hour. if a visitor starts to do F5 does not count, but counts if he returns after one hour

[effrit]

it is not a counter but hits the joomla article

this is EXACTLY the same (hits = visit/view counter).
if you cant understand how to solve problem based on my advise you must hire programmer for this.
or maybe there is free plugin for this but i cant find one.

[promoitalia]

I think the only way will be the plugin that you have recommended to me, thank you very much.
I think that joomla should adopt this default option
thank you so much

[effrit]

i agree. i will post this suggestion to Joomla 4 thread.

[promoitalia]

but it would be necessary to find a way for the memory of the database to be deleted every hour, is it possible with a cron? but how do you do it?
the plugin allows you to count a single visit forever, works on groups but you can not set a refresh time?

[effrit]

the logic depend of where you will store visited articles ID's.
if u make it based on Cookies then DB will be not involved. so u only consern will be this Cookie size.

and for DB you can use cron and clean this table every 1 weak, for example.

[brian]

You do realise that it is optional to display the hits - personally the first thing I do on a site is to make sure it is not displaying hits on the frontend

[effrit]

@brian, we talk about make it useful not invisible.

[promoitalia]

could you give me a directive how I can use the cron?

[effrit]

sorry, i am not such developer.
and firstly u must make the plugin.

[effrit]

Look like we have good chance to get rid of mad increment in 3.x version.
and i made simple plugin for writing id of articles in cookies, so bright future is near ).

[effrit]

I made the plugin. It use cookies and prevent multiply hits count, also visits of search bots don't count.
https://yadi.sk/d/lkyrvAibes66Ag

[SharkyKZ]

I made the plugin. It use cookies and prevent multiply hits count, also visits of search bots don't count.
https://yadi.sk/d/lkyrvAibes66Ag

Logic should be reversed. Hits should be blocked when needed, not by default. Now they're blocked everywhere.

You can also get category ID from input instead from model. This will avoid unnecessary DB query.

[effrit]

The logic is right.
Because for corporate site with blog, for example, u need only one category with counter and other will be without it. Just because of DB caching. This is how i see it.
So if anyone want different logic he must change the code.
Thanks for catID suggestion, will use it.

[SharkyKZ]

I don't think you understood me. You are now blocking hits on all components. This is because you set hitcount to 0 on all pages. Instead, you should set it after performing the checks in your plugin.

[effrit]

Hm, look like i must check "context" then.

[effrit]

@SharkyKZ, seems i cant deactivate hits only for com_content.
i tried other plugin triggers but problem is the hit DB query already done if trigger not onAfterInitialise.
and inside this trigger i cant get context data, so it's dead end...
but good part is - PR we made is merged, so in next Joomla version disabling standard articles hits will be possible via options so i will can remove this part from plugin.

also getting category ID don't look safe because for uncategorised articles it return nothing, so i must assume what current id = 2:
$catid = $jinput->getInt('catid', 2);

[SharkyKZ]

Use onAfterRoute.

also getting category ID don't look safe because for uncategorised articles it return nothing

In Joomla articles can't be uncategorised. Each article must have a category assigned.

[effrit]

try get ID of article inside uncategorised via input.
it return nothing.
for other categories it return number.

[effrit]

implemented suggestions of SharkyKZ, new version.
https://yadi.sk/d/IypdyLc5zz8sKg