diff --git a/lib/middleware/request_tracker.rb b/lib/middleware/request_tracker.rb
index 3922dd193a0..ee8c25f9621 100644
--- a/lib/middleware/request_tracker.rb
+++ b/lib/middleware/request_tracker.rb
@@ -51,12 +51,18 @@ class Middleware::RequestTracker
 
     helper = Middleware::AnonymousCache::Helper.new(env)
     request = Rack::Request.new(env)
+
+    env_track_view = env[TRACK_VIEW]
+    track_view = status == 200
+    track_view &&= env_track_view != "0".freeze && env_track_view != "false".freeze
+    track_view &&= env_track_view || (request.get? && !request.xhr? && headers[CONTENT_TYPE] =~ /text\/html/)
+
     {
       status: status,
       is_crawler: helper.is_crawler?,
       has_auth_cookie: helper.has_auth_cookie?,
       is_background: request.path =~ /^\/message-bus\// || request.path == /\/topics\/timings/,
-      track_view: (env[TRACK_VIEW] || (request.get? && !request.xhr? && headers[CONTENT_TYPE] =~ /text\/html/)) && status == 200
+      track_view: track_view
     }
   end
 
diff --git a/spec/components/middleware/request_tracker_spec.rb b/spec/components/middleware/request_tracker_spec.rb
index c8064be052f..2799082bfab 100644
--- a/spec/components/middleware/request_tracker_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/components/middleware/request_tracker_spec.rb
@@ -13,10 +13,30 @@ describe Middleware::RequestTracker do
   end
 
   context "log_request" do
-    it "can log requests correctly" do
+    before do
       freeze_time Time.now
-
       ApplicationRequest.clear_cache!
+    end
+
+    def log_tracked_view(val)
+      data = Middleware::RequestTracker.get_data(env(
+        "HTTP_DISCOURSE_TRACK_VIEW" => val
+      ), ["200",{"Content-Type" => 'text/html'}])
+
+      Middleware::RequestTracker.log_request(data)
+    end
+
+    it "can exclude/include based on custom header" do
+      log_tracked_view("true")
+      log_tracked_view("1")
+      log_tracked_view("false")
+      log_tracked_view("0")
+      ApplicationRequest.write_cache!
+
+      ApplicationRequest.page_view_anon.first.count.should == 2
+    end
+
+    it "can log requests correctly" do
 
       data = Middleware::RequestTracker.get_data(env(
         "HTTP_USER_AGENT" => "AdsBot-Google (+http://www.google.com/adsbot.html)"