Wikipedia:Visit counter

I may have missed out on essential information, but whatever happened to the "his page has been accessed ... times" feature? Okay, first it was disabled. Has it gone for good now? I've always considered it relevant (if only quantitative rather than qualitative) feedback. --KF 18:58 Jan 30, 2003 (UTC)

It's gone for good for performance reasons. There will be a replacement though, based on log analysis. --Eloquence 19:14 Jan 30, 2003 (UTC)

At the least, it's gone for now, as the counting part of the counter is disabled for performance reasons (and in any case not very accurate, as it shows repeat views by the same persons; hits by web search index spiders; doesn't indicate how long the page has been around to accumulate those hits; etc.) --Brion 19:18 Jan 30, 2003 (UTC)

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Wikipedia pages used to have visit counters near the bottom counting the number of users who had previously visited the page. Because of the unoptimized programming used to save this information, it contributed to the server overloads. To avoid these happening often, the developers switched the visit counters and other features off.

See Special:Statistics for site-wide aggregate visitor numbers.

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Why was the hit counter dropped from each page? Was it the server strain thing? jaknouse 01:55 Mar 23, 2003 (UTC)

I do hope it returns some day... Arno