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STATS and HIT COUNTERSToday's major Web sites do not use a counter. Instead, they use log analysis programs or stat packages to measure variables that are vital to the proper marketing of their Web site, and NOVAHOSTING.COM customers have access to a general purpose analysis tool. For the very best in stats and log analysis programs, we highly recommend FastStats, which is available to you for a 30-day free trial by clicking here. The highly rated FastStats is scaleable to any size Web site, and produces over two-dozen reports that contain all the detailed data you need to make your Web site successful. With FastStats, you will discover the pages people are accessing (hits and users), the pages linking to your site, the search engine keywords being used to get to your site, what pages are causing 404 errors, and a dozen or two more reports. For example, your advertisers will demand detailed information about who is visiting your Web site, where they're coming from, and what they visit. You can answer these questions and much more with FastStats.
Clients can still use our stats program, AND download the logs to analyze using another program such as FastStats.
Logfiles on the servers are compressed everyday and clients can download their stats
from the /home/username/domain-logs/old and unzip them on their PC with a program called WinPak.
The directory name is based on the current yearMonth, i.e., 2001 Feb would be ./old/200102/. The logs will be stamped with the day
of the month and total minutes for each day and the time the script is executed.
You'll need to use WinPak --> WinZip isn't good enough. [WinPak is available for download free]
Because you're downloading a compressed file and not the active log file, you won't need to signal Apache to tell it to reopen the logfiles.
The special counter script can be used on your site by selecting the counter style you like, and inserting your domain name with the extension into the code. Many use the stats page instead, but you are welcome to use this counter. For more information, please see the complete documentation. 1.CHANGE THE DIGIT STYLE For example: Below are the five styles of digits included on our server: 2. CHANGE THE BORDER OF THE COUNTER 3. CHANGE THE TIME OF THE COUNTER
timezone=X -- This would be preceded by an "&" ( no quotes )
The parameter timezone= is only significant with
display=clock, display=date or display=countdown
Use this parameter if you want to display time or date
of another timezone, or calculate countdown in
reference to a timezone to a target date. The
timezone must be specified with a negative or positive
four digit offset from GMT. For example, timezone=GMT-0500 or timezone=GMT+0000 or
timezone=GMT+0530. The routine to display the time of
various timezones is written in a generic way.
Therefore, the Unix box will not be aware of
daylight savings time because of the way the routine is
written. For example, if daylight savings time is on, to
display the time of the East Coast of the U.S., you would write timezone=GMT-0500 instead of
timezone=GMT-0400.
If the clock displays your local time wrong, specify
your timezone with that parameter in order to display
the correct time.
No problem, all you need to do is simply change the data
file (df) to yourdomain.com-whatever. Make sure you include your domain name or
sub-directory name in the name of the data file. Just be sure not to use strange
characters like "/" Yes. A simple change to the counter code--before uploading it for the first time--will do it. <img src="/cgi-sys/Count.cgi?df=your_domain.com&dd=C&ft=0&st=7000"> The above code snippet (on one line) pasted into your html, with your_domain.com, would give you a popular counter starting at "7000." Note: This must be done BEFORE you upload your html page containing the counter code. Make sure you include your domain name (or sub-directory name) after the df=. Just be sure not to use strange characters like "/" |
