RE: To count or not to count

Absolutely should not be used on a commercial site.  You have access to
logs, that's all you need.  No major site, or well designed one has a place
for a counter.  Save that for people's home pages and hobby stuff.

Eric J Hoffman
Director of Internet Initiatives
Meagher & Geer, PLLP

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org [mailto:owner-hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org]On
Behalf Of Stuart & Toni Livesey
Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 1998 2:36 AM
To: hwg-graphics(at)mail.hwg.org
Subject: To count or not to count


Hi all,

I would like to pick the collective brains of the list about counters.

I have produced two commercial sites and included counters on both although
I didn't really need them because I had access to analog reports. I
included them because I thought it would indicate to other surfers just how
popular the sites were.

Today I was talking to the CEO of the company that I work for (not as a
web-designer) and we were discussing the company's internet site. I
challenged him over the lack of a counter on the company site and he
responded that a counter was totally unnecessary and something to be
avoided on commercial sites.

What I would like to know is the consensus opinion of the group. Perhaps to
save bandwidth all replies could come direct to me and in a few days I will
post a report on the group's views.

Thanks in advance

Stuart

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