Web Counters...

I recently added a web counter to my weblog. See sidebar... The 1591 showing in the diagram was the screen image I took early yesterday, Monday, July 19, 2004. On Sunday I set the initial count of my webpage counter for this weblog to 1575 using the conservative methodology outlined in the following discussion and diagrams. Because my weblog is relatively new [June 1, 2004] I decided to use the hits the server software recorded. Initially I maintained this weblog at qisoftware.blogspot.com before switching to my own domain @ qisoftware.com/blog/, around the 10th of June. The following charts show hits for the months of June and July [through the 17th] to my weblog:

June Numbers:


July [through the 17th] Numbers:


The figures I use are conservative. For example the /me/AboutMe.html hits, denoted with ** showing in both charts [626 for June and 340 for July] are also hits to my Weblog but are redirects so are counted as direct hits to qisoftware.com rather than actual hits to my Weblog url - http://www.qisoftware.com/blog/. (It appears that if you redirect within a website - Webalizer counts it as a direct hit rather than a hit to the particular url.)

Webpage counters are another way website owners can track information and ensure that all statistics are being tallied correctly. Another statistic to note are the number of referrers [corrected 8/19/04] for a particular url. As of July 19, my Weblog has linked to another page on my website [qisoftware.com] 1486 times for July and 2036 for the month of June. Here again these numbers are conservative because /blog/ and /blog are not the same url to Webalizer and I am only reporting the numbers for http://www.qisoftware.com/blog/. The /me/AboutMe.html numbers report 545 referrals for June and 20 for July [through the 19th].