Hit Counter??
October 28th, 2006
I was asked the other day by a client if they can put a hit counter on their website. For some reason I’ve always thought this to a bad idea but when I sought out the opinion of others (in Google) all I found were ways to include one. It made me wonder if the mood has changed on hit counters.
What do you think? Does it effect your thoughts on a site if you see a counter. The client only wants it to know what kind of stats he’s getting so I’m going to suggest the server stats page anyway.
But what about a counter on the page is this popular again???
Popularity: 2% [?]
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Personally I find hit counter terribly tacky, but if he’s only in it for the stats there are plenty of invisible options (sitemeter.com and statcounter.com) come to mind. Their free service is pretty comprehensive but only includes the last 100 visits, but you can pay for extended visitor coverage
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Myself I think “Hit Counters” are a waste of code on a site and just silly… There are programs you can sign up for out there that will tell you all the info you need to know about your site traffic without the need for letting your visitors know you got a few hits that day…
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thanks for your visit and your comment , hope to see you again.I think hit counters are ok.but i think there better of invisable to the visitor and also it,s cool if you can see the ip address and the counrty the visit came from.
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Thanks for the responses and it was as I thought. The client seems happy enough with just knowing the stats so that works out. After you’ve been in the industry for a couple of years sometimes you forget why you don’t like certain things and you can sound negative when there are actually very good reasons.
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Two things that MUST be avoided on commercial websites…
Visible hit counters and guest books.
Nothing will kill a potential customer’s purchasing urge than if they see you’re not getting many hits (a possibility regardless of the situations/search engines status/cross links) or enough hits to THEIR comfort level… and the same with a guestbook… The latter, aside from the constant issue with spammers, opens you up to “comments” from unhappy people OR people with nothing better to do than to post ignorance… or no entries, in which case, see my first point.
IF the customer is insisting they want to see “stats”, send them server stats… or put a “hit counter” that does not openly display numbers, but needs to be clicked on to display them.
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I have a hit counter but I hardly ever look at it.
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