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I want to count the visits on a web page, and this page represents an element of my model, just like the Stack Overflow question page views.
How to do this in a reliable (one visit, one pageview, without repetitions) and robust (thinking on performance, not just a new table attribute ‘visits_count’)
You can’t.
The closest you can get is to store the visitors IP in combination with a cookie to not count those in the future. Here is a tradeoff, if they clear the cookie, they are a new visitor. If you only store the IP, you count whole proxies as one visitor.
Another option is to use user accounts and track exactly which user viewed what page, but this is not really a good option for public sites.