counters on web pages

[John Walker]

At 10:13 AM 3/11/98 -0800, you wrote:
>On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, John Walker wrote:
>
>[snip]
>> Take a look at the counters on my web pages at:
>> 
>> http://www.networx.on.ca/~jwalker
>> 
>> These keep track of how many folks visit each page. They also give a 
>> full report with grand totals and daily totals for the site.
>> 
>> Oh, I forgot to mention that it's free.
>
>You also forgot to mention that you need to take the advertisement along
>with the "free" counter. Page counters are about the worst way I can think
>of to keep statistics. First, no one looking at the page besides the
>author of it cares. Second, these things always add to the bandwidth load
>of the page. As another poster described, your server software keeps track
>of your statistics. If your Web manager doesn't provide you with these
>statistics, then they are not doing their job. Feel free to quote me on
>it.
>Roy Tennant
>
>

Yes you take the banner along with the counter. So what? It gives me the data
that I need to work with without having to pay my ISP extra to cull it. If it
lets the world know about them all the better. These folks do great work and
should be compensated in some form.

You're right, as the author of the site I do care how many visit and where
they
go. My site is designed to be of service to the entire global village but
there
are factors that I must consider. One of them is how to best use my disk
quota.
If information is not being used then it can be replaced by something that
is. 

The counter works off a graphics call to their site. No cgi script,
(scripts are
not allowed on a number of ISP's.)

The reporting is simple and straightforward. The first column is the
running total,
the second is the daily total and the third is the actual page.

236    2    http://www.networx.on.ca/~jwalker/ticker.htm
552    2    http://www.networx.on.ca/~jwalker/inews.htm
418    7    http://www.networx.on.ca/~jwalker/inewsrch.htm
1373   7    http://www.networx.on.ca/~jwalker/educat2.htm
171    0    http://www.networx.on.ca/~jwalker/gkd.htm
347    0    http://www.networx.on.ca/~jwalker/educat.htm
63     1    http://www.networx.on.ca/~jwalker/npfund.htm
662    2    http://www.networx.on.ca/~jwalker/educat1.htm
182    1    http://www.networx.on.ca/~jwalker/course.htm
66     0    http://www.networx.on.ca/~jwalker/digdipl.htm
44     0    http://www.networx.on.ca/~jwalker/business.htm
32     0    http://www.networx.on.ca/~jwalker/index.htm
3341   86   http://www.networx.on.ca/~jwalker
438    9    http://www.networx.on.ca/~jwalker/dis.htm
<snip>
Total  Reset
Count  Count
11293  165 

This method may not be suitable for all of the list members but may meet the
needs of some.

List members can e-mail me privately if they wish more information.

JSW

jwalker at networx.on.ca







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