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See [[wikipedia:Hit counter]]
See [[wikipedia:Hit counter]]


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== Examples ==
* http://web.archive.org/web/19981203123223/http://members.aol.com/zigystar/index.html

Latest revision as of 12:12, 11 February 2014

Early web pages used hitcounters as a simple means of collecting what might now be called "analytics". The concept of getting "hits" emerged as the language of web visibility / popularity. (Hit later problematic as site of spamming, relation to search enging gaming)

Notably, early hitcounter's often made use of the fact that a CGI could produce an image as output (rather than just textual / HTML), and thus be placed on a webpage simply with an <img> tag whose src refers to the URL of the hitcounter cgi script.

See wikipedia:Hit counter

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Examples