diff --git a/app/Console/Commands/UpdateArticleViewCounts.php b/app/Console/Commands/UpdateArticleViewCounts.php
index c75aa59a2..c7771f9f4 100644
--- a/app/Console/Commands/UpdateArticleViewCounts.php
+++ b/app/Console/Commands/UpdateArticleViewCounts.php
@@ -43,6 +43,26 @@ public function handle()
 
     protected function getViewCountFor(Article $article): ?int
     {
+        $viewCount = $this->getViewCountForUrl(route('articles.show', $article->slug));
+        $canonicalViewCount = ($url = $article->originalUrl()) ? $this->getViewCountForUrl($url) : 0;
+
+        return ($total = $viewCount + $canonicalViewCount) > 0 ? $total : null;
+    }
+
+    protected function getViewCountForUrl(string $url): int
+    {
+        if (! $url = parse_url($url)) {
+            return 0;
+        }
+
+        $scheme = $url['scheme'] ?? null;
+        $host = $url['host'] ?? null;
+        $path = $url['path'] ?? null;
+
+        if (! $scheme || ! $host || ! $path) {
+            return 0;
+        }
+
         $response = Http::withToken($this->token)
             ->get('https://api.usefathom.com/v1/aggregations', [
                 'date_from' => '2021-03-01 00:00:00', // Fathom data aggregations not accurate prior to this date.
@@ -54,13 +74,18 @@ protected function getViewCountFor(Article $article): ?int
                     [
                         'property' => 'pathname',
                         'operator' => 'is',
-                        'value' => "/articles/{$article->slug()}",
+                        'value' => $path,
+                    ],
+                    [
+                        'property' => 'hostname',
+                        'operator' => 'is',
+                        'value' => "{$scheme}://{$host}",
                     ],
                 ]),
             ]);
 
         if ($response->failed()) {
-            return null;
+            return 0;
         }
 
         return $response->json('0.pageviews');
diff --git a/resources/views/layouts/_fathom.blade.php b/resources/views/layouts/_fathom.blade.php
index ab4715acd..09e7850ca 100644
--- a/resources/views/layouts/_fathom.blade.php
+++ b/resources/views/layouts/_fathom.blade.php
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 @production
     <!-- Fathom - beautiful, simple website analytics -->
-    <script src="https://boom.laravel.io/script.js" site="UXCUXOED" defer></script>
+    <script src="https://boom.laravel.io/script.js" site="UXCUXOED" defer @if(isset($canonical) && !Str::startsWith($canonical, config('app.url')))data-canonical="false"@endif></script>
     <!-- / Fathom -->
-@endproduction
+@endproduction
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tests/Feature/CanonicalUrlTest.php b/tests/Feature/CanonicalUrlTest.php
index 9f2bc011e..bc9dd0f10 100644
--- a/tests/Feature/CanonicalUrlTest.php
+++ b/tests/Feature/CanonicalUrlTest.php
@@ -1,13 +1,22 @@
 <?php
 
+use App\Models\Article;
 use App\Models\Tag;
 use App\Models\Thread;
 use Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\DatabaseMigrations;
+use Illuminate\Support\Facades\App;
 use Tests\Feature\BrowserKitTestCase;
 
 uses(BrowserKitTestCase::class);
 uses(DatabaseMigrations::class);
 
+function inProduction()
+{
+    App::detectEnvironment(fn () => 'production');
+}
+
+afterEach(fn () => App::detectEnvironment(fn () => 'testing'));
+
 test('pages without a canonical url explicitly set fall back to the current url', function () {
     $this->get('/register')
         ->see('<link rel="canonical" href="http://localhost/register" />');
@@ -51,3 +60,19 @@
     $this->get('?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=abc123')
         ->see('<link rel="canonical" href="http://localhost" />');
 });
+
+test('canonical tracking is turned off when using external url', function () {
+    Article::factory()->create(['slug' => 'my-first-article', 'submitted_at' => now(), 'approved_at' => now(), 'original_url' => 'https://example.com/external-path']);
+
+    $this->get('/articles/my-first-article')
+        ->see('data-canonical="false"');
+})->inProduction();
+
+test('canonical tracking is turned on when using external url', function () {
+    App::detectEnvironment(fn () => 'production');
+
+    Article::factory()->create(['slug' => 'my-first-article', 'submitted_at' => now(), 'approved_at' => now()]);
+
+    $this->get('/articles/my-first-article')
+        ->dontSee('data-canonical="false"');
+})->inProduction();
diff --git a/tests/Integration/Commands/UpdateArticleViewCountsTest.php b/tests/Integration/Commands/UpdateArticleViewCountsTest.php
index ad6c0e2c1..79c79e2be 100644
--- a/tests/Integration/Commands/UpdateArticleViewCountsTest.php
+++ b/tests/Integration/Commands/UpdateArticleViewCountsTest.php
@@ -28,6 +28,46 @@
     expect($article->fresh()->view_count)->toBe(1234);
 });
 
+test('article view counts can be merged with original url', function () {
+    Http::fake(function () {
+        return Http::response([[
+            'pageviews' => 1234,
+        ]]);
+    });
+
+    $article = Article::factory()->create([
+        'title' => 'My First Article',
+        'slug' => 'my-first-article',
+        'original_url' => 'https://example.com/my-first-article',
+        'submitted_at' => now(),
+        'approved_at' => now(),
+    ]);
+
+    (new UpdateArticleViewCounts)->handle();
+
+    expect($article->fresh()->view_count)->toBe(2468);
+});
+
+test('article view counts are not merged when url is invalid', function () {
+    Http::fake(function () {
+        return Http::response([[
+            'pageviews' => 1234,
+        ]]);
+    });
+
+    $article = Article::factory()->create([
+        'title' => 'My First Article',
+        'slug' => 'my-first-article',
+        'original_url' => 'erhwerhwerh',
+        'submitted_at' => now(),
+        'approved_at' => now(),
+    ]);
+
+    (new UpdateArticleViewCounts)->handle();
+
+    expect($article->fresh()->view_count)->toBe(1234);
+});
+
 test('article view counts are not updated if API call fails', function () {
     Http::fake(function () {
         return Http::response('Uh oh', 500);