I'm sure there is a simple answer to this problem, but I inserted a hit counter into my index page and published the site and now when a viewer enters the index page it counts them, then they go to another page and back again to the index page, it counts them again, etc..? How do I keep this from happening?
Thank You!
httpwebwitch
2:44 am on Jan 18, 2006 (gmt 0)
use cookies.
When the page is loaded, read the cookie. if the cookie doesn't exist, increase the counter and drop a cookie. If the cookie does exist, do nothing.
kaled
12:51 pm on Jan 18, 2006 (gmt 0)
Use a counter that looks at IP addresses and only increments if the request comes from an address not on its recent list.
Kaled.
GoodChi
1:28 pm on Jan 18, 2006 (gmt 0)
Thanks Kaled. Is there a way for me to tell which counters can do this? As you can tell I'm a beginner. I just used a counter from my Frontpage software and there wasn't really any difference between the choices. I suppose I need to go to an outside source?
