Not a bug Thread views counter failing

[foruman]

I have noticed in many threads around all the forums here that sometimes the thread views counter for some threads is reporting a non reliable number compared to other similar threads. For example:

Possible new post notice bug
Posted: Nov 2, 2013
Views: 8,378

Quick search box contains 'Search this forum only' tickbox in categories
Posted: Nov 5, 2013
Views: 3,470

xf_user_news_feed_cache contains invalid data when an add-on is disabled.
Posted: Nov 11, 2013
Views: 1,012

If you're going to say that this is due to a search spider then please improve the way in how you handle the number of views that a spider can generate in a thread.

 

[Mike]

Maybe it's a spider, maybe it's just a more interesting thread to visitors, maybe it's come up on search engine results. Any view counts. This is very unlikely to ever change.

 

[foruman]

Could you please check this? http://xenforo.com/community/threads/explain-this.63818/

It appears that it's not related to spiders nor visitors. Definitely there is something wrong in the way in how you're handling the thread views counter. This problem is present in many threads here at XenForo. This doesn't happen in vBulletin 3.8

 

[Steve F]

The thread is simply getting a lot of views from searches, the title has some keywords that play a roll in it.