Alternative To Big Nasty Counters
 

Right now I'm using a third party counter to count the stats on my sites. My host doesn't offer stats directly and it's because they lowered prices by offering less in the control panel. I know, I should've gone with a host that does but my host has really good bandwith prices. Are there any programs that will allow me to calculate my stats?

Do you have .htaccess / Apache module mod_rewrite with your hosting?

If you have PHP and mysql access, you could use counters like this:

http://www.bigwebmaster.com/PHP/Scri...rams/Counters/

Too many counter programs today are using sneaky redirects, downloads, and traffic filters to take advantage of your traffic.

Alex

Hi msacras |waves| welcome to the board :)

You should really invest in something like AWStats so that you have good logs that are far more accurate than with a "free" counter.

Urb- I don't have .htaccess / Apache module mod_rewrite with my hosting.

RawAlex, I do have PHP/mysql access so I'm going to take a long at that link.

Surfn, I'll check out AWstats. Thansk for the welcome, I guess I've been lurking for so long I always thought I had posted before. Obviously not.

And thanks for everyones answers.

msacras, you have a PM.

This is what I use for my stats, and it's free and hidden to surfers. It's called Webstats.

http://www.tomsnewbiebooster.com/res...ts/script.html

No aff, other than a satisfied user.

i used that script along time ago.. it worked well