How Can I Hide a Hit Counter?

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AA Smith

How can I have a hit counter on a given web page that is hidden from view,
though visible to me online?
 
Hi,

You probably want a stats program rather than a hit counter. I've seen this
on a few sites (haven't used it though so can't recommend)
http://mindviz.com/ but it's free so you may as well try it out.
 
Just make the background color and text color of the hit counter the same as
your site's background color. For instance, if your background is white,
change the text color of your hit counter to white. Since you know where it
is located on the page, highlight it with your mouse when you want to see it.
 
Make a 1 pixel by 1 pixel gif image and use it as your custom hit counter image.


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Easiest way (whether using a FrontPage hit counter or someone else's):
find the code responsible for it and surround it with this:
<div style="display:none;"> and </div> that's it. not only will it not be
visible it won't even take up any space.

HTH

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Chris Leeds,
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ContentSeed: great tool for web masters,
a fantastic convenience for site owners.
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Yes, that's the idea I came up with (but didn't post)

Another thought is that you can have a button to unhide it, but then - how
do you hide the unhide button :-))

In a way, you could. Just make some innocuous text a hyperlink that will do
the trick. You would have to remove all formatting so that it doesn't look
like a hyperlink
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Trevor L., WIP (Web Interested Person)
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Easiest way (whether using a FrontPage hit counter or someone else's):
find the code responsible for it and surround it with this:
<div style="display:none;"> and </div> that's it. not only will it
not be visible it won't even take up any space.

HTH

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Chris Leeds,
Microsoft MVP-FrontPage

ContentSeed: great tool for web masters,
a fantastic convenience for site owners.
http://contentseed.com/
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I choose Polesoft Lockspam to fight spam, and you?
http://www.polesoft.com/refer.html
 
I once made a hit counter (on the insistence of the customer) and hid it in
a UPC symbol graphic which was part of the page layout. it was absolutely
undetectable but right there for the owner to see. :-)

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Chris Leeds,
Microsoft MVP-FrontPage

ContentSeed: great tool for web masters,
a fantastic convenience for site owners.
http://contentseed.com/
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Don't do that if SEO is a consideration. Google and other search engines
consider hidden text (test the same color as the page) as attempts to
"spam" the search engines and penalize sites that do by banning the site
from the search engine. Using a stat program is better anyway. you host
should provide one or give you access to the log files at least.

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Cheryl D. Wise
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