Have you ever wondered home many people look at your home node? Mine is at IndyZ, if you want to check it our, BTW.

I set up a counter about 2 weeks ago. See the results here.

=Brian

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Re: Home node counting?
by clash (Novice) on Dec 01, 2000 at 23:49 UTC
    Yes, thats a good idea, also, Petruchio has a sort of guestbook on his page. It editted by hand but does the job
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RE: Home node counting?
by cciulla (Friar) on Jun 01, 2000 at 15:00 UTC

    The thought never occured to me, but that is actually kind of cool.

    Now, if vroom could implement this in the everything engine, that would be even cooler.

    That being said, how is this a CUFP?

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RE: Home node counting?
by merlyn (Sage) on Jun 06, 2000 at 05:40 UTC
    A "hit counter" is pointless in the face of proxy caching and robots. A "hit counter" that is IMG SRC driven doubly so, since many visitors may have image loading turned off.

    That's why I voted this -1, since I have the power.

    -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

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      You are right Randal. For accurate counting, a "hit counter" is totally pointless. However, sometimes it is nice to know how many people visit your pages, and since I don't have access to vroom's server logs to get an accurate load count, I just have to improvise.

      On another note, I feel honored to be flambe'd by the mighty merlyn.

      =Brian

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        And IndyZ spoke:
        However, sometimes it is nice to know how many people visit your pages
        But you can't know that. A single "hit" to an image could be 100 people at aol.com, or a hundred people could all hit with images turned off. The numbers are totally uncorrelated. Thus, it's not just vanity that says that hit counters are useless; it's completely unrelated to reality.

        -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

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