Additional Settings

There are a few additional settings you can use to customize dj-hitcount by using them in your settings.py file.

HITCOUNT_USE_IP

This tells whether to store the IP address from the request. Defaults to True for backwards compatibility with django-hitcount.

Warning

The default value for HITCOUNT_USE_IP will change to False in the next major version bump(if a lot of things go well, then in v2.0.0). Explicitly set it to True to use IP.

HITCOUNT_KEEP_HIT_ACTIVE

This is the number of days, weeks, months, hours, etc (using a timedelta keyword argument), that an Hit is kept active. If a Hit is active a repeat viewing will not be counted. After the active period ends, however, a new Hit will be recorded. You can decide how long you want this period to last and it is probably a matter of preference.:

# default value
HITCOUNT_KEEP_HIT_ACTIVE = { 'days': 7 }

HITCOUNT_HITS_PER_IP_LIMIT

Limit the number of active Hits from a single IP address. 0 means that it is unlimited.:

# default value
HITCOUNT_HITS_PER_IP_LIMIT = 0

HITCOUNT_HITS_PER_SESSION_LIMIT

Limit the number of active Hits from a single browser session. 0 means it is unlimited.:

# default value
HITCOUNT_HITS_PER_SESSION_LIMIT = 0

HITCOUNT_EXCLUDE_USER_GROUP

Exclude Hits from all users in the specified user groups. By default, this is set to an empty list (all users counted). In the example, below, it will exclude all your ‘Editors’.:

# example value, default is empty tuple
HITCOUNT_EXCLUDE_USER_GROUP = ( 'Editor', )

HITCOUNT_KEEP_HIT_IN_DATABASE

Hits remain in the database indefinitely unless you run the hitcount_cleanup management command. This setting specifies a timedelta within which to keep/save Hits. Any Hit older than the time specified will be removed from the Hits table.:

# default value
HITCOUNT_KEEP_HIT_IN_DATABASE = { 'days': 30 }