Access Counters (hit counters)

You are visitor number

Beware: the Computing Center discourages use of access counters

Standard approach for doing access counters is to add an IMG tag such as:

<IMG ALT="many" 
 SRC="http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~jqj/cgi-bin/counter.cgi?http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~jqj/inter-pub/maps/counters.html">

Other (much better) counter services also exist. If you use this one, replace http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~jqj/inter-pub/maps/counters.html with the URL for your page.

1. browser loads HTML document
2. browser requests image for counter
3. server runs a program to generate the image "on the fly"
4. counter program increments a file containing the page count, and generates an image containing the value
5. browser displays the image

Next: Notes on Counters