Thanks for the reply Rick
That would not work in my case as even though there is about 700 users with a login they seldom do and most visitors come via search engines
Most of my content is "techie" in detail and people come there to obtain the help information they need but rarely do the visitors post themselves
This means a post can be viewed 200 times but the view counter sits at zero, appearing as content had no value to the viewers
My forum gets about 100 visitors a day yet counters never update until I post and counters update but then again do not function until I post another new post.
