Option to disable save article hits

administrator/components/com_content/config.xml

@@ -350,6 +350,18 @@
 			<option value="0">JHIDE</option>
 		</field>
 
+		<field
+			name="save_hits"
+			type="radio"
+			label="COM_CONTENT_FIELD_SAVEHITS_LABEL"
+			description="COM_CONTENT_FIELD_SAVEHITS_DESC"
+			class="btn-group btn-group-yesno"
+			default="0"
+			>
+			<option value="1">JYES</option>
+			<option value="0">JNO</option>
+		</field>
+
 		<field
 			name="show_noauth"
 			type="radio"

administrator/language/en-GB/en-GB.com_content.ini

@@ -90,6 +90,8 @@ COM_CONTENT_FIELD_PUBLISH_DOWN_DESC="An optional date to Finish Publishing the a
 COM_CONTENT_FIELD_PUBLISH_DOWN_LABEL="Finish Publishing"
 COM_CONTENT_FIELD_PUBLISH_UP_DESC="An optional date to Start Publishing the article."
 COM_CONTENT_FIELD_PUBLISH_UP_LABEL="Start Publishing"
+COM_CONTENT_FIELD_SAVEHITS_DESC="If you want to display the hits, then select YES to save the number hits."
+COM_CONTENT_FIELD_SAVEHITS_LABEL="Save Hits"
 COM_CONTENT_FIELD_SELECT_ARTICLE_DESC="Select or create an article to be displayed."
 COM_CONTENT_FIELD_SELECT_ARTICLE_LABEL="Select Article"
 COM_CONTENT_FIELD_SHOW_CAT_TAGS_DESC="Show the tags for the category."

components/com_content/controller.php

@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@
 
 defined('_JEXEC') or die;
 
+use Joomla\CMS\Component\ComponentHelper;
+
 /**
  * Content Component Controller
  *
@@ -106,7 +108,11 @@ public function display($cachable = false, $urlparams = false)
 			// Get/Create the model
 			if ($model = $this->getModel($vName))
 			{
-				$model->hit();
+				$config   = ComponentHelper::getParams('com_content');
+				if ($config->get('save_hits', 1) == 1)
+				{
+					$model->hit();
+				}
 			}
 		}