is the neocities view counter broken by any chance?? or am i just psycho. i saw some1 say it was, but i wasn't sure if it was true... kind of seems like it is
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From what I gathered from the traffic analytics on here, every image that loads on a page counts as a hit, which can really inflate numbers. I put an old fashioned hit counter on my homepage, and its in the 7k range vs the 177k neocities itself reports.
Hits occur each time our servers send a file. For example, if a webpage consists of an HTML file, three images, and two JavaScript files, accessing this page would result in six hits. Visits are a count of unique IP addresses requesting pages from a web site per hour, regardless of how many requests that IP address makes. Visits generally give a more accurate representation of website traffic in terms of real users
From what I gathered from the traffic analytics on here, every image that loads on a page counts as a hit, which can really inflate numbers. I put an old fashioned hit counter on my homepage, and its in the 7k range vs the 177k neocities itself reports.
thanks! i figured something was up with that, lol. i should do that too...
I think the official word on it explains it best (reply)
Hits occur each time our servers send a file. For example, if a webpage consists of an HTML file, three images, and two JavaScript files, accessing this page would result in six hits. Visits are a count of unique IP addresses requesting pages from a web site per hour, regardless of how many requests that IP address makes. Visits generally give a more accurate representation of website traffic in terms of real users
Of course how meaningful the built in visits counter is, is anyone's guess. I choose to live in ignorant bliss in this case <3