How to calculate the number of visits to a personal home page

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As a personal homepage, the number of visits is to test whether the home page is pleased with the important criteria, there are many ways to calculate the number of visits, in addition to the familiar counters, as well as the IP address count, and so on, the following commonly used methods to describe how to calculate the number of visits.

Counter

This is one of the most common counting methods to place a CGI program on your home page, in this way, when a person visits, the counter will be increased by 1, this method, simple and easy to use, but it also has drawbacks, first, the CGI program is set in the picture, when a person to the browser's picture function closed, Counter will not be counted. There is also a counter that allows you to set its initial value, that is, you can set any number, which will produce no deceptive behavior; Finally, when a visitor loads your home page, the counter is generally the last to be loaded, so it is possible that the visitor jumps elsewhere when your counter is not working. Of course, although the counter has many deficiencies, but it is also the most commonly used method, after all, it is more accurate.

CTR (hits)

The CTR is when a visitor visits your home page, the sum of the commands the server receives, in simple terms, if your home page has five pictures, then when loading the page, you already have five clicks, of course, your home page must have other content, so each content represents a click rate, so, This is the least accurate method of calculation, and currently only some of the ICP in the publicity like to use.

Page (page)

The number of pages means that when a visitor visits your home page, if it's visiting your first page, if it's a page, if it's visiting your other Web pages, and so on, and so on, for example, it's visiting your other five Web pages, then even if you've visited Page Six of your homepage, this method is not personal, Only certain ISPs and ICP are available.

IP address Count

Although we are generally dial-up Internet, but every time we surf the Internet, we will have an ISP randomly assigned IP address, so if a visitor visits your homepage, whether it stays on your homepage for a long time, or see how many pages, are counted one, so that the number of visits to count is more real, Because the above several methods and people have a lot of contact, and IP address, only every time the Internet, they are different, this method is currently used more. Synthesis method

Now there is a way to calculate the flow of personal homepage, is to embed a section of Java Scirpt script on your homepage, as soon as someone visits your home page, the script generates a record on the requesting server that records not only the amount of traffic, but also the operating system and IP address that the visitor uses. , from there and so on, and to give you a statistical report every once in a while. At present, there are two such service providers in China, one is easy number, one is hot news. And the easy number is the IP address to calculate, more real point, because now the amount of traffic is also related to the page rankings, this is something.

The above is a common way to compute the number of visits, and many personal home pages have used a variety of methods, both counters, and traffic calculation, in short, get the right amount of access to their homepage is the greatest encouragement.