Web Hacks- Counters? Stats?

Factual Questions
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      • The place I’m working at wants a web counter on their site. Generally it’s $5 a month or so for a [low-volume] commercial site, paying that is not the problem. The problem is that we only want the counter to show the count, and that’s all. When you click on a counter, normally it takes you to the stats for that page on the webcounter’s site, and this is the part we don’t want. The site is hosted on an ISP, and running our own server is not an option. Are there any counters that display the count, but don’t function as a link back to the page’s stats? Is there any way to set up a regular javascript page that will produce an incrementing counter? The accuracy isn’t even critical here, the server logs wil be used for analysis.
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Why pay for it? There are enough freeware scripts out there to do exactly what you want.

Try the http://www.perlarchive.com/index.shtml as an example and search under “counters.”

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The OP said that this is a hosted web site, and they may not have the ability to add any server-side code at all.

This is a very common problem. Without the ability to host code on the ISP server, you’re stuck with one of the 3rd party counters.

Check with your ISP, though. Many of them have a ‘CGI Library’ of prebuilt server routines you can use on your web site. And the first thing they always offer in such arrangements is a site counter.

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or cgi-resources.com for free cgi scripts.

BTW, my host gives us stats for our website. They are called logs.