Drizzle Internet NW-FAQ-Gimme a hit counter!

How do I set up a "hit counter" on my web site?*

Option 1:

If you are a Drizzle customer, e-mail us, and we'll activate a counter for you.

When we e-mail you to say that we have set it up, add this HTML tag to your page's code where you want the counter to appear (replace "USERNAME" with your Drizzle User ID) :

If you want an invisible hit counter (you want your counter to continue to count, but be invisible to the user), you'll need to alter the HTML we send you slightly. Set the variable sh=F in the HTML of your counter. It should look like this (replace "USERNAME" with your Drizzle User ID) :

If you want to further customize your counter, here's a helpful page from the nice folks who wrote it.

If you're using FrontPage to build your site, there is a bug that may keep your counter from running accurately on our Linux servers. In this case, please e-mail us and let us know that you're using Front Page, and we'll send you a special version of the counter.

Option 2:

The following services will allow you to use their counter program links in exchange for your e-mail address and some other personal information. Additionally, most advertise their service on your page. If you'd like to check out a few of these services, we've linked some below. For a more complete list, search the web for "free counter." Drizzle does not endorse ANY of the counter services listed below. Any harm done by these services to any users' files is purely at the risk of the user.

http://www.fastcounter.com/

http://darkcounter.com/

http://www.thecounter.com/

*Of course, if what you're actually interested in is seeing and collecting information on how many hits your page is getting (as opposed to having a graphic on the page that shows a number to visitors), and if you have a virtual domain name hosted with Drizzle (as opposed to a web address like www.drizzle.com/~username), you can get a detailed breakdown of that information from the statsform. You can find that information for your webpage by going to:

http://www.yourdomainnamehere.com/statsform.html