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Jim Franz wrote:
Is there a way to count visitors on a static page (html only)?
Management wants to know.
jim
Others have provided some good technical answers. But the first question
is: What exactly does management want to know? The logs will tell you
how many "hits" your page received, but that's not very useful since
many hits will be from bots, and not necessarily people (potential
customers?) looking at your page on a monitor. Looking at the logs, you
can sort by the user agent and then figure out which are bots and which
are browsers (assuming the bots don't lie!).
As someone else pointed out, if you want to count the people viewing
your page, you could count the hits to some unique image loaded by that
page, since the bots generally have no need to fetch images.
Unfortunately, one thing the logs won't tell you is how long a visitor
looks at your document, or if they even read past the title banner.
Webmasters know that a lot of people will find their page in a Google
search, have a quick glance, and decide immediately that they need to
keep searching. Perhaps a more meaningful measurement is how many
(non-bot) visitors actually bother to visit other pages on your web site.
Cheers! Hans
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