Ravenwood - 06/17/03 07:00 PM
Acidman is bitching that people who don't offer full disclosure on their site counters can manipulate the numbers and make it say what they want. My problem is that I don't use sitemeter or some high fallutin' third party script. My counter is an internal CGI script, and it only does one thing. It counts.
Sure, I can make it say 
if I want to. But why would I? As for stats, all of my stats are built into my webhost, and revealing them would require giving out my account password. I'm not about to do that.
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I do wish I could get a counter like I used to have several years ago which would not count hits from my own computer. I estimate that 10% of all the hits my counter shows are me, refreshing the page to look over the display of new posting or to see who has updated on the blogroll.
Posted by: Tiger at June 17, 2003 8:11 PMIf the CGI script also does referrals, you probably have the ability to weed out your own domain name. (Otherwise the vast majority of referrals would come from your own site.)
If your counter is running the same script, you should 'in theory' be able to have it not count your own IP address, as well as hits coming from your own site. Therefore, if you have broadband, and a static IP, you should be able to block it from counting your hits.
Posted by: Ravenwood at June 17, 2003 8:22 PMI don't think that is what he is upset about. I think what upsets him is those that have the counter icons that don't show the number of hits and if you click them, require a password. Better off not having the icon there in the first place.
Posted by: Plunge at June 17, 2003 8:45 PMI've run two different counter systems in seven years, but it's still the same count: the second started where the first left off (at 6444, if anyone cares). And I don't allow access to my Site Meter stuff because I'm one of their five or six paying customers and it just goes against the grain; similarly, you need a password to read my host's Analog runs, which historically are very close to the SM numbers, but I don't give that out either.
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