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From: "Pat Asher" <>
Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] Re: Freepages-Help-D Digest V01 #26
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 19:14:22 -0500


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> If I understand how a hit counter works, its something like this. When a
> visit to my website is made, the counter advances one number. When I
visit
> my website to see the counter, it advances one number also. But if no
other
> hits are recorded by visitors other than me, no advances of the counter
are
> made by me, regardless of how many times that I check the website. Thus,
> after the first visitor, it appears to me that a counter advance of only
one
> number would not happen. Yet, I have seen the counter advance just one
> number several times. How is this possible?

Good question! Possibly the counter only holds the computer ID in memory
for a measured amount of time?

Did you know you can check your counter without changing your count by going
to

http://counter.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/querycounter.cgi

Enter the "name" of your counter and you will be given the statistics for
that counter. You can also reset the counter from this URL.

--
Pat Asher
Ambrose Genealogy
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~pasher
Help for beginning Web Authors
http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.com/~pashe

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