Using Web Page Counters from University Park


Counters on Personal Web Pages

If you have a personal Web page at http://www.personal.psu.edu, you can use the following code to include a text counter on your web page:

This page has been accessed <!--#exec cgi="cgi-bin/counter-nc"--> times since March 4.

(The code is typed all one one line.)  The end result will be a line that looks similar to this:

This page has been accessed 10 times since March 4.

Counters on Department Web Pages

If you have a department home page and you want to use one of Penn State's counters, you must use a graphical counter.  The text counter for personal web pages (as described above) will not work on department pages.  There are many different graphical counters that you can use; see Penn State's Script Page for more details.  Here's one example of code that can be used for a graphical counter:

This page has been accessed <img src=
"http://www.personal.psu.edu/cgi-bin/Count.cgi"> 
times since March 4.

(The code is typed all one one line.)  The end result will be a line that looks similar to this:

This page has been accessed times since March 4.


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Updated February 27, 2008
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