Title: Prefetch makes the stats wrong
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Prefetch makes the stats wrong

 *  [Rod Whiteley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rod-whiteley/)
 * (@rod-whiteley)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/prefetch-makes-the-stats-wrong/)
 * I like Counterize, but I discovered that the Firefox browser (and maybe others)
   prefetches pages. Countersize records these prefetches as if a user had actually
   viewed the prefetched pages.
 * WordPress creates the link tags that trigger prefetch by default, although it’s
   easy for a plugin to turn them off. Ideally, Counterize should detect GET requests
   that are merely prefethces and not count them, but an easier solution might be
   to disable the link tags.
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 * Last reply from: [Rod Whiteley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rod-whiteley/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/prefetch-makes-the-stats-wrong/)
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