Re: [WEB400] visit counters

["Roger Vicker, CCP" <rv-lists@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jumping in late...

If you can get Perl to work I've used a script called unicounter on 
public web hosting that has two advantages.
1) it doesn't have to be displayed to count
2) it can be set to keep track of X# last client IPs and not increment 
the counter on page revisit/refresh.

Disadvantage is that it requires the client browser to have javascript 
enabled.

I've successfully gotten Perl itself up and working on the iSeries but 
haven't gotten it to work under Apache on the iSeries. Chris Beck over 
in the Perl400 midrange.com list is going to try and report on how they 
did it when time permits.

Roger Vicker, CCP

On 1/22/2004 6:50 PM, Brad Stone wrote:

> There was a app that I used a few years ago that worked
> with Classic logs.  SurfStats?  I think that was it.
>
> You need to decide if you want to count vists to your site
> as a whole, counts for each page, etc.  
>
> One trick some do is make a 1x1 transparent image and place
> it on each page.  If you want to know the count for each
> page, then you name it differently for each page.  If you
> just want counts to your index (main page), then just put
> one there.  Then counting requests for that image in your
> log file is pretty simple.
>
> Then again, most web admins now don't worry much about
> "hits" any more.  They just say "we're getting a couple" or
> "we're getting a lot" just by looking at the logs.  :)
>
> Brad
> www.bvstools.com
>
>  
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> > Behalf Of Jim Franz
> > Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 1:43 PM
> > To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
> > Subject: [WEB400] visit counters
> >
> >
> > Is there a way to count visitors on a static page (html
> > only)?
> > Management wants to know.
> > jim
> >    

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