Steps to reproduce the issue

If you have webpage with restricted access hits counter for articles does not increase.

Expected result

Hits counter should also increment if you have webpage for registered users only.

Actual result

If you have webpage with restricted access hits counter for articles does not increase.

System information (as much as possible)

Joomla 3.5

Additional comments

I checked this problem and my analysis is below

The root of problem is in the file:
/components/com_content/controller.php

lines 72-76:

if ($user->get('id')
|| ($this->input->getMethod() == 'POST'
&& (($vName == 'category' && $this->input->get('layout') != 'blog') || $vName == 'archive' )))
{
$cachable = false;
}

These lines sets cachable to false in some cases, also when you are logged user. For this reason the condition in the line 104 is not fulfilled and hits are not added.

    if ($vName == 'article' && $cachable)
    {
        // Get/Create the model
        if ($model = $this->getModel($vName))
        {
            $model->hit();
        }
    }