Counters

[Terry Huwe]

In our case, we have a commercial counter that count hits on our 
index.html page for the Institute of Industrial Relations as an indicator 
of use.  However, it's not visible to users.  We find this helpful 
because it gives us some idea of traffic.  The main reason we've 
resorted to this is that our web site (http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~iir) 
runs on a shared-use server which is administered by another department.  
We find it easier (at least in the short term) than working out a way to 
display server statistics with the administrator.  I should add that this 
site has nearly 1,000 separate files representing the work of many 
different units, so it's been politically helpful to have an estimate of 
hits.  Also, we have formatted the counter to discount hits by the two 
individuals with web server software access (which would skew 
statistics).  

Obviously, I'd rather buy my own server!  I'm working on that.... :-)

Terry Huwe
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University of California at Berkeley
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On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Wilfred Drew wrote:

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> We will keep the counter up because it is an INDEX of use.  It shows the
> volume of use even if it isn't precise in any way.  I laos have counters on
> my own home pages.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: comrel at mail.orion.org <comrel at mail.orion.org>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at library.berkeley.edu>
> Date: Friday, October 03, 1997 1:20 PM
> Subject: Re: Counters
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> >Roy Tennant wrote:
> >>
> >> So please, those of you who display counters on your pages, why do you do
> it?
> >> Inquiring minds want to know...[Let's be clear that there are other
> >> ways of both taking statistics and making them (unobtrusively)
> >> available to those who wish to see them.] Thanks,
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