Hit counter on web page

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I placed a hit counter on my home page. It seems to get lots of hits. Is this mostly because of bots?

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I have a hit counter on another page which doesn't get many hits.

Posted 11-Sep-22 6:06am

BobbyStrain

Updated 14-Sep-22 4:27am

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Francois D Viljoen · Answer 1 · 2022-09-11T23:57:00

Solution 1

It could be that your hit counter registers every time you run the web page locally from your development environment also?

Normally, hit counters shows more information on the analysis page - maybe look there for more information.

Posted 11-Sep-22 23:57pm

Francois D Viljoen

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BobbyStrain 12-Sep-22 15:59pm

I's just code to increment a counter each time the page is loaded.

Francois D Viljoen · Answer 2 · 2022-09-14T04:27:00

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Where do you store the value of the counter?

Posted 14-Sep-22 4:27am

Francois D Viljoen

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BobbyStrain 14-Sep-22 12:10pm

I store it in a text file on the server. The file is in a public folder. I have another page with a counter that is accessed from the home page. The counter value is reasonable at what I expect.