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You are visitor number
to this page since 31 October 2002.
You can keep track of how many visitors a Web page receives, as shown above. Simply place a tag similar to the following, in your HTML code:
<img src="/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?df=userid.blahblah" alt="Counter">
In this example, userid.blahblah is the name of a "count file" which keeps track of how many hits the page receives. The counter software will create this file automatically, in a system file directory, the next time someone accesses your page after you add the tag.
You must pick your own count file name and substitute it for userid.blahblah. Also, the name you pick should normally be different from the name of anybody else's count file. We suggest that you base the count file name on your login name. If you want to count hits on more than one page, use a different filename for each page, possibly by attaching a suffix to your login name.
For example, Joe Schmoe, whose login name is jschmoe, might use a count file named jschmoe.home for his home page, and one named jschmoe.football for a page about football.
For more information on using the counter, including how to change the style of the digits, see the author's official documentation for the counter program.
This page was last updated on 1 November 2002. If you have questions or corrections, please contact the Web Servant (webservant at presby.edu).