# Link click counters not working for 'open in new tab'?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/link-click-counters-not-working-for-open-in-new-tab/134793>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Tags:** click-counter\
**Created:** [December 1, 2019, 10:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/link-click-counters-not-working-for-open-in-new-tab/134793 "2019-12-01T10:20:43Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 7, 2025, 11:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/link-click-counters-not-working-for-open-in-new-tab/134793/9 "2025-01-07T11:29:15Z")

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The counters exist to display engagement. Every kind of click is some form of engagement, thus the over counting method is far more reflective of the actual engagement, and I imagine that most other people would want to see how frequently the links are engaged with.

Conversely, I doubt anyone wants to see a count of how many times a link was clicked with only the left mouse button, or a short-press on a phone. That specific detail doesn’t seem important to non-developers.

I’ve seen plenty of conversations happen around links that have only 1 or 2 clicks listed, despite 10s of people discussing the item. The undercounting method you currently use is very inaccurate as all of those people followed the link, but they didn’t do so in the narrow set of parameters Discourse currently tracks.

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