How to allow my visitors to view the site statistics?

[fir3bird]

Hi,

The URL of my test site is http://firebird.hit.bg/ .
My username is "fir3bird".

I registered with StatCounter a few hours ago just to try it and a question came up in my mind. I would like to know is there a way to allow my visitors to view the statistics of my site by clicking on the counter image? Right now if the user clicks on the counter image, then the main page of http://www.statcounter.com/ site appears in a new window instead of displaying statistics for my site
http://my.statcounter.com/project/standard/stats.php?project_id=293857&guest=1 .

20x!

[webado]

I don't think there's any safe way to achieve this under the present set up of StatCounter.

Even if you could in fact send through a complete login sequence then this would open you to anybody modfying or even deleting your account.

Furthermore, I would imagine also that every bot and spider that visited your site would also try to follow this link. Right now they get nowhere, but if you allowed such an automatic login they would get in and that would be a serious security problem. Not to mention the traffic to the server.

[fir3bird]

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Even if you could in fact send through a complete login sequence then this would open you to anybody modfying or even deleting your account.

Furthermore, I would imagine also that every bot and spider that visited your site would also try to follow this link. Right now they get nowhere, but if you allowed such an automatic login they would get in and that would be a serious security problem. Not to mention the traffic to the server.

No, my friend. Check this link out:
http://my.statcounter.com/project/standard/stats.php?project_id=293857&guest=1
This is not a login sequeince - this displays statistics to the public. This is a guest account and users have no rights for modifying any settings. They are able only to view the site statistics. I got this URL from:
My Projects » Access » "Enable public stats" checkbox
and I think it is supposed to make the counter image to lead to that public stats page, but it's not working.
Site spiders are not a problem - they come, they see the statistics of my site, they go away. All other web-counters that I reviewed recently display statistics to the public by clicking on the counter image, so it's not a big deal.

[webado]

Ooops! I will eat my words! I missed that option. I remember vaguely seeing it way back when I signed up but had no need for it.

Indeed, it doesn't appear to work.

[webado]

Use this http://my.statcounter.com/project/standard/stats.php?project_id=293857&guest=1;java=0

It was the java=0 bit that was missing.

[webmoriar]

The guest url is not automatically placed for guests to click on on your website. If you wanted you could make your own link but it is not automatically embedded in the statcounter code.

[webado]

Yes, but he meant was that the url given specifically for that purpose was in fact wrong. Well, it was not wrong, but incomplete as it turns out.

[webmoriar]

Both links work for me, the one with and the one without java=0

I was responding to the initial question, "I would like to know is there a way to allow my visitors to view the statistics of my site by clicking on the counter image?"

Sorry for any confusion.

[webado]

Oh, the link without java=0 works in the sense that you get somewhere - namely to the sign on page. It doesn't get directly to the stats page as enabled for a guest. At least this is the case in my installation IE6.0.

[webmoriar]

I use Firefox 0.8 so that could explain the difference.

[webado]

Aha! :D

[mojacity1]

I am wondering if there is any way to only post your graph and not all of the other stuff such as came from, visit length, etc. Does anybody know?

[webado]

Sorry, no.