adding a counter or extending stats - customers online

[Guest marline]

Is there a way to extend the stats of the customers on line from 15 min, to a longer time frame?

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And is there a way to add a page counter on the bottom of each page!

[jerseyjoe]

And is there a way to add a page counter on the bottom of each page!

I'm sure someone else can answer your questions about how to make those changes - but I'm curious as to why you want a counter on each page.

Is it because you want to know what's going on on your site? If so, there are far better ways of knowing who is looking at what on your web site weithout telling your competitors.

Every web site server must keep highly detailed records about who is visiting your site, how they found it, what they do on what pages, how frequently they visit, etc. - all that, and much more, is kept in the server log for every domain. There are many free tools (Web Traffic Analysis - WTA) that analyze that web traffic.

Any decent web host offers a choice of the better free WTAs such as AWSTATS (http://awstats.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/awstats.pl), Webalizer (http://webalizer.mirror.camelnetwork.com/), and Analog (http://www.analog.cx/)

And if you are advertising your web site through Google's AdWords, you have free use of their Urchin system which they have renamed to something I forget - but it is excellent.

Hope this helps

[Guest marline]

And is there a way to add a page counter on the bottom of each page!

I'm sure someone else can answer your questions about how to make those changes - but I'm curious as to why you want a counter on each page.

Is it because you want to know what's going on on your site? If so, there are far better ways of knowing who is looking at what on your web site weithout telling your competitors.

Every web site server must keep highly detailed records about who is visiting your site, how they found it, what they do on what pages, how frequently they visit, etc. - all that, and much more, is kept in the server log for every domain. There are many free tools (Web Traffic Analysis - WTA) that analyze that web traffic.

Any decent web host offers a choice of the better free WTAs such as AWSTATS (http://awstats.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/awstats.pl), Webalizer (http://webalizer.mirror.camelnetwork.com/), and Analog (http://www.analog.cx/)

And if you are advertising your web site through Google's AdWords, you have free use of their Urchin system which they have renamed to something I forget - but it is excellent.

Hope this helps

Thanks both of you! Your info is always great!