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Insight track function called multiple times
🐛 Current behavior
Insights track called multiple times
Insights track function is called as many times as the useHits hook or Hit component are used in the InstantSearch component.
🔍 Steps to reproduce
Go to the live reproduction See the multiple logs in the console Remove one component using the useHits hook See the number of logs decreasing
Live reproduction
https://codesandbox.io/s/relaxed-james-x92y0k?file=/src/App.tsx
💭 Expected behavior
the 'view Hits' event is supposed to be called juste one time, regardless of how many times you used the useHits hook.
Package version
algoliasearch 4.14.3, instantsearch.js 4.43.1, react-instantsearch-hooks-web 6.38.1, search-insights 2.2.3-hooks-web
Operating system
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Browser
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This is a good point. One solution I'm seeing is memoizing sendEvent somewhat, maybe only for the view case, as you could have clicks that happen multiple times on the same element, but viewing it multiple times still counts as viewing it once.
I don't understand your solution. On my side can I do anything to avoid this behavior beside not using the hook more than one time ? Can you edit my codesandbox maybe ?
Sorry, the solution would be in the source code, I'm not sure what an user land solution could be for this issue.
As a temporary workaround, I guess you could divide the stats by the number of hits components you have
In addition to the statistics analysis deffect, it provide a big dump of performance, maybe to link with this ticket : https://github.com/algolia/instantsearch/issues/5237
For example on our side, we were using useHits in every HitComponent and we are displaying 100 hits by page.
That was producing nearly 500 to 1000 HTTP requests only to send viewed events when page display. 😆
Does this has a solution? we have a similar problem but is affecting our limits in Algolia because are receiving 6 times the same view event
