simple unique visitor text counter?

[htdawg]

hi,
does anyone know how the Count.cgi counter works, is it a program? how do i install it on my site and where can i find it or a text counter that will count unique visitors on my site.

thanks
htdawg

[Receptional]

Hi - Welcome to the tracking and Logging forum.

count.cgi just sounds like a filename to me that many people might use to track visitors, rather than a branded product.

There are many ways to track visitors to your site. The most common are:
1) ask you web hosting company if your site comes with logfile amalysis. It probably does if they gave you some kind of username and password to log in to a secure area.
2) Better "unique visitor" tracking is usually achieved using cookies, which is not as scary as it sounds... Try typing in "Hit counter" into your favourite search engine. These ask you to put a little snippet of code onto each page of your site. You don't need to understand the code, but you do need to understand that you are now uising cookies to track which means you should let your users know on the site somewhere.
3) The third method is to use a script of your own, such as a cgi script but if you are not sure if "count.cgi" is a program then I would suggest you avoid this route and leave it to serious programmers.

Hope this helps.

Dixon.