What is the best way to include a counter?

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Aside from searching for a free service to include a counter on my sites, is there a way to code a counter into the page? I work in HTML primarily but is there some way to do this? Also, you should probably know that I want it to count visitors not hits, so if the same IP comes back to the counting page several times I don't want it to count over. Can someone help me or am I asking too much?
Confused

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i can get you one coded in php

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Quote: I want it to count visitors not hits, so if the same IP comes back to the counting page several times I don't want it to count over

its called unique hits, only one hit per ip address per day

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Get a decent hosting provider, they should provide you a behind the scenes stats package that gives you way more information that just the number of hits your page gets.

Andy

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i haven't used a visible counter on any of my sites for years. If you have a decent host you can get stats from there and there isn't another bit of code you have to have on your actual page.

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