Automattic / Automattic/jetpack
Invalid 404 file URLs counted on stats page
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Description
#### Steps to reproduce
1. Starting at URL: bwspotlight.com
2. View Stats page
3. Click on one of the counted files
4. Refresh page, view is counted
#### What I expected
With a 404 link it would be expected to not count the view
#### What happened instead
The view is counted
History in this forum thread: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/strange-mass-zip-file-download/#add-note
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by reproducing the behavior at bwspotlight.com: open the Stats page, click a counted file URL, and refresh the page. Trace how the Stats page records the view for a 404 response; done means invalid 404 file URLs no longer contribute to view counts, while valid file views still do.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- php, wordpress
- Domain
- analytics
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100