Bug: Kit pageviews miscounting

Bug description

It is now clear to us that the pageviews of our (free) kit are miscounted.

First, out of the blue, we received warnings about using more than the allowed monthly pageviews. That was quite weird because (a) we have never had reached the 10000 limit before and (b) our web app is subscription based and we monitor our users' activity closely. Also, our kit is restricted for use in our two domains only.

We decided to give fa's counting algorithm the benefit of the doubt so we created a new kit and started monitoring pageview count. While it worked for a few months (with total monthly pageviews well below 10000) then suddenly we were warned once again.

This time we decided to stop using the kit and self-host fa, which we implemented. We took a note of 14988 total pageviews for the range between 2023-10-01 and 2023-10-08.

Surprisingly, today, 2023-10-10, the total pageviews are 14991! Obviously, your algorithm keeps counting even though the kit is not used any more!

So, please, check your counting algorithm again. We sincerely hope this is not just a trick to have users upgrade to paid kits.

Font Awesome version

v.5.x

Application and Operating System

• Windows Server 2012 R2
• IIS Web Server
• ASP.NET Core 3.1 Web Application

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