If you tell me another methode of measuring the popularity of each site in a simple way, I am down to change it but as of right now I think its a valid methode of measuring popularity.
My knowledge is limited due to not being a back-end coder, but I did some digging and it appears that through the use of browser fingerprinting methods, you can generate a unique identity for each user [e.g. based on their OS, hardware, and a lot of other things].- If it's too much of a hassle, the next best thing is probably to follow how this forum limits the read count of the threads to one count per day for each IP (I do know it's not perfect, but it's better than nothing).
I got you, same here. We tried to optimize it already, lets see how it turns out.
