People
often wish to find out how frequently their web pages get accessed.
This information may now be found with this form:
http://www.csulb.edu/cgi-bin/hits
Just type in the URL for the page you wish to check to obtain
a count of the number of accesses to that page for the period
from when our new webserver was installed (June 17, 1998) up to
midnight last night (these counts only get updated once a day).
You may also add an automatic "hits" counter to your
web page by including an image tag pointing to our counter script.
Usually you'd precede (or surround) this with some explanatory
text. For example:
<img src="http://www.csulb.edu/cgi-bin/counter">
users have visited this page.
Generally you'd
create the above image tag (<img...>) with your HTML editor's
insert-HTML-tag procedure. This brings up a window where you may
type in the counter's image tag directly:
<IMG SRC="http://www.csulb.edu/cgi-bin/counter">
The results
should look something like this:
users have visited this page
Note that these
counts are also only updated once a day, so this won't provide
an up-to-the-minute count. If you need that, grab a counter CGI
from the Internet. Also, note that the image tag does not specify
the size explicitly, but lets the browser obtain it from the source.
This is important. If your HTML editor automatically specifies
the size based upon a low starting count, there may not be space
for expansion as more people visit your site. This is why you
should use Insert->HTML Tag in Netscape Composer instead of
the insert image button.
A few options are available, and are included as parameters to
the counter script. This means that their syntax is somewhat obscure,
but not too messy. Each consists of a keyword followed by the
"=" sign, and then a value. The three available options
are:
bg=colorcode
fg=colorcode
size=sizecode
where
"colorcode" is one of those hexadecimal RGB color specifications
such as "ff33b6". The "#" sign normally used
in the body for hex color codes must be omitted here (or url-encoded).
Two sizecodes are available, small and large (medium is the default).
When combining more than one of these options, separate them by
an ampersand (&). You'll also need a question mark between
"cgi-bin/counter" and the first option. Thus to add
a counter with large blue-gray letters on a pink
background use:
Access Counts: <img src="http://www.csulb.edu/cgi-bin/counter?fg=552299&bg=ff77ea&size=large">
to get:
Access Counts:
