Good free web counter?

[dmd3x]

I am looking for a free counter that I can have on my website. I might not even have the number displaying to the public, I want to at least know for myself. Anyone know of a good one?

[Blodia]

this maybe?

http://hitcounter.leveltendesign.com/features.html

[cyoung1616]

I've used this one for 3 years

http://counter.bloke.com/

it's down at the bottom of my page

http://myweb.cableone.net/cyoung/

Cody

[Grunt]

eh..move to proper forum

[www.adamcroft.com]

www.nextgenstats.com - hidden stats, only you can see them. Tells you country of visitors, their browsers, everything. It's perfect and free.

[Tim Dorr Veteran]

I dunno which one to go to.... Um....

How about web programing :) So....

Moved to Web Programming - timdorr heavy moderating industries

[BxBoy]

here's a simple php one (like the one I used in my sig) :)

<?PHP
$counternum = "counter.txt";
$fp = fopen($counternum,rw);
$num = fgets($fp,9999);
fclose($fp);
?>

[mikey]

  BxBoy said:

<?PHP
$counternum = "counter.txt";
$fp = fopen($counternum,rw);
$num = fgets($fp,9999);
fclose($fp);
?>

can i just ask how that increments???

[BxBoy]

  mikey said:

  BxBoy said:

<?PHP
$counternum = "counter.txt";
$fp = fopen($counternum,rw);
$num = fgets($fp,9999);
fclose($fp);
?>

can i just ask how that increments???

woops, forgot this part:

    $fp = fopen($counternum,w);
     $num += 1;
     fputs($fp, $num);
     fclose($fp);

[NetRyder]

<?php 
     $counternum = "counternum.txt"; 
     $fp = fopen($counternum,rw); 
     $num = fgets($fp,9999); 
     fclose($fp); 
     $fp = fopen($counternum,w); 
     $num += 1; 
     print "<b>$num</b>"; 
     fputs($fp, $num); 
     fclose($fp); 
?>

[NetRyder]

Or if your host doesn't support PHP, you could use www.infinitefx.co.uk

[liar2]

i like to use extreme tracking. been using it for about a year now. it also gives some other nice info.

link

[Quboid]

It doesn't look like it increments at all. It just gets the value. Try this:

$file = "counter.txt";
$fp = fopen($file, "r");
$hits = fgets($fp, 999);
fclose($fp);
$hits++;
$fp = fopen($file, "w");
fprintf($fp, "%d\n", $hits);
fclose($fp);
print $hits;

I think that's right, but it's been a long time since I used text files. Who needs text files when you have MySQL...

$query = "UPDATE pages SET hits = hits + 1 WHERE id = $pageId";
$r = mysql_query($query);
$query = "SELECT id,hits FROM hitsTable WHERE id = $siteId";
$r = mysql_query($query);
$hits = mysql_result($r, 0, "hits");
print $hits;

That'll do your job if you have a table of pages with at least an id field and an int field for the number of hits, although you'd want to add error checked too. This is how I implement my hit counters so I have a counter on every page. If I thought about it, I could probably come up with a way to do it in one SQL statement but as I never read the hit number on a page I increment it on (as showing hit counters to visitors is somewhat unprofessional and boastful), I've never had a reason to put any thought into it.

One thing to note about this is that I do the update first, then the select. The obivous way to to select, add one and update, however that can be faulty. Imagine it's a busy site - what might happen is this:

- Visitor 1 arrives and the web server process for him starts (which we'll call V1)

- V1 reads the number of hits for that page, let's say it's 100

- Visitor 2 arrives and the web server process starts for him (which we'll imaginatively call V2)

- V2 reads the number of hits for that page, which would still be 100

- V1 adds 1 to the value, so it's 101

- V2 adds 1 to the value, so it's 101

- V1 updates the database with the new value with the number 101

- V2 updates the database with the new value with the number 101

Voila - 2 hits, but the hit number has only gone up by 1 because V2 read the value before V1 had updated it. By reading,incrementing and updating in the same SQL statement means that the MySQL server will entirely do this for V1 before handling anything by V2, so when V2 is processed, the number is already 101.

This may be a little deep for a thread about free hit counters ... sorry, got started and couldn't stop :D

EDIT: Spent so frickin' long on my reply the orignal question was answered long before I posted. Oh well... :rolleyes:

[uniacid]

maybe he'd want it standalone :) just for 1 page

[mipra]

nice

[john smith 1924 Veteran]

the old versions of xstat used to be free- they were amazing....

[Schmoove]

www.nedstat.nl

[gazelle]

www.cgispy.com works for me but they have reset my counter twice :angry:

[Zilos]

http://www.counting4free.com/

This is what I use, and it's simple and works great. Havn't had any problems, and been using it for years.