Introduction
You can place an odometer style counter on one or more of your web
pages. Although many vital statistics can be reviewed via the
stats program in your Control Panel, sometimes you may want to
advertise the number of "hits" to a specific web page.
How to use
Add the following line of code to an HTML document to display a
counter:
<img src="/cgi-bin/newcount?key&width=5&font=digital">
The key should begin with the
userid of the account being updated. For example, if the
userid entered is "xyzcom", the counter key should begin
with the same character string (e.g. xyzcom3, xyzcom-counter).
If you would like to add a counter to more than one page, be sure
to use a different key to distinguish between each of them (e.g.
userid1, userid2).
The newcount script resides in the
server's cgi-bin directory and can be referenced from your HTML as
if it were within your own account. The script does NOT reside in
your cgi-local directory and is pre-installed for your
convenience.
Substitute your userID for userID
above. If you would like to add a counter to more than one page,
start with "userID1" and increment by one each time you
add a new counter to another page. (i.e. userID1, userID2, etc.)
To change the number of digits displayed in
the counter, adjust the value of the width
attribute.
To display an odometer style counter, change
the value of font from
"digital" to "odometer".
To make the counter invisible to visitors,
add &noshow to the end of the tag.
Then add a second copy of the same counter to a secret page to see
what the value of the counter is. Add &noinc
to the counter tag to prevent the counter from incrementing when
you view it on this second page. This is an easy way to track hits
to a page without having to look at your usage statistics in your
Control Panel.
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