Django why my post.count_views increments by 2?

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Good evening, everyone, Iā€™m a beginner at Django I have blog page details that has count views and category for the blog post and blog post tags and other staff

my post model is:

class Post(models.Model):
    title = models.CharField(max_length=250)
    content = RichTextUploadingField()
    post_date = models.DateTimeField(auto_now=True)
    slug = models.SlugField(max_length=200, unique=True)
    image = models.ImageField(null=True, blank=True, upload_to="images/")
    tagss = models.ManyToManyField(Tags, blank=True, related_name='post')
    Categorys = models.ManyToManyField(Category, blank=True, related_name='post')
    views_count = models.IntegerField(default=0, null=True, blank=True)
    
    def __str__(self):
        return self.title

and my view is:

def post_page(request, slug):
    post = Post.objects.get(slug = slug)
    post.views_count = post.views_count + 1
    post.save()
    print("views:", post.views_count ) 
    
    cats = Category.objects.all()
    tags = Tags.objects.all()
    
    # change 2 to how many random items you want
    random_items = list(Post.objects.all().order_by('?')[:2]) 
    
    related_posts = list(
        Post.objects.filter(
            Q(tagss__name__in=[tag.name for tag in post.tagss.all()]) | 
            Q(Categorys__name__in=[Category.name for Category in post.Categorys.all()])
        ).distinct()
    )
   
    recent_posts  = Post.objects.all().order_by('-id')[:4]
    
    
    context = {'post': post, 'cats': cats, 'tags': tags, 'recent_posts': recent_posts,
               'random_blog': random_items, 'related_posts': related_posts}
    
    return render(request, 'blog/Blog_details.html', context)

my problem is when I refresh the post page the views increase by 2 I need when the user refresh the page to increase by 1
Thanks, everyone

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Can you show the runserver log with the GET requests for this page and the print statements showing the views_count?

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I found the issue,
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