How does a visitor counter work?
By biman_s
@biman_s (1060)
India
September 16, 2009 12:18am CST
Have you seen the visitor counters in websites showing the total number of people who have visited that site. I have also added them to my website but the fact is, I really don't understand how do they work. Can you tell me how they work?
3 responses
@aicasalinks (303)
• Philippines
16 Sep 09
The count is based on the number of IP that visited the site from what I know. I think when you visit the site multiple times within one given day, it only counts as one visit. I am not sure though. Anyone who can confirm this?
@pals101 (2003)
• Philippines
16 Sep 09
Basically it records the number of visitor on a website.. And can be detail into:
- the number of page the visitor has explore
- how long the visitor has been the site (taking the hours and date)
- how open the visitor visits the website
- what are the pages he visited most and not
- how did he know or came across with the visited website (referral or direct)
These are just some of the details which a visitor counter works..
@crisanta85 (235)
• Philippines
16 Sep 09
It's just simply showing the traffic comes to your blog or website.
But aside from that, I think there's no more use of it. But if you want to know what countries visits your website, also add some flag widget.
