Site Statistics and Counters

Use of hit counters on BCN owned pages and centers is discouraged. Analog reports are created weekly for all centers; please contact me (Paul von Behren) for information on using analog reports.

Use of a counter will slow down the responsiveness of your web page. The demo page for vcounter styles demonstrates this - it has 8 counters and very little else. It takes about 20 seconds for this page to completely display all the counters; divide this delay by 8 to get a sense of how much time each of your users will be impacted by the use of a counter.

If you still want to use counters, here's how to set them up.

For .html or .htm pages
A graphic counter is available for HTML pages. There are numerous options described at http://bcn.boulder.co.us/bcn/vcounter/vcntrdoc.html

The documentation for vcounter describes how it can be used in .html pages (these examples have <IMG SRC... tags) and in .shtml pages (these examples have <!--#include tags). You must use the <IMG SRC... format on .html or .htm pages.

Example: <img src="/cgi-bin/vcounter?start=13&style=faketext"> The available styles are demod on this page.

For .shtml pages
Text and Graphic counters are available for .shtml pages.

• /cgi-bin/counter is text-based, so it is easy to use and picks up the background color and the font size and style with no extra effort.

  Example:
  Page accessed <!--#include virtual="/cgi-bin/counter"--> times.

  The style of the counter can be either ordinal or cardinal:

  For an ordinal count: (example 1)

  <!--#include virtual="/cgi-bin/counterord"--> (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.)
  

  For a cardinal count: (example 2)

  <!--#include virtual="/cgi-bin/counter"--> (1, 2, 3, etc.)

  
  
• For a graphic counter, you can use vcounter - described above.