I don't want my hits to count - can't seem to disable this

[loyaltymax]

Can anyone provide a solution to help me with my page hits counting on my counter? I have cookies enabled and I have "unique page views" as my view but everytime I hit refresh it keeps counting me. Thanks!

[webado]

Originally Posted by loyaltymax

Can anyone provide a solution to help me with my page hits counting on my counter? I have cookies enabled and I have "unique page views" as my view but everytime I hit refresh it keeps counting me. Thanks!

Unique page views doesn't mean you won't be counted. You must generate the blocking cookie.

You may be deleting cookies by inadvertance. Check your browser settings. If you are using Firefox you must set the blocking cookie in that too, not just in IE.

[loyaltymax]

I generated the blocking cookie - and I have cookies enabled - any other ideas?

[webado]

Originally Posted by loyaltymax

I generated the blocking cookie - and I have cookies enabled - any other ideas?

If you sign out from Statcounter this may delete the cookie.

You browser may be deleting cookies automatically.

You have an antispyware or firewall program that prevents the proper functioning of the cookie.

[rubberdinosaurs]

StatCounter routinely (not always, but often) forgets my settings and starts counting my vists, and of course when I notice I go into each project and manually set the blocking cookie. But just recently StatCounter has started counting my own visits to some of my projects, but not to others. So it doesn't look like the browser or a firewall are doing it, as they would do it to all projects, right?

This is a really annoying problem. The only way I can tell from the My Projects page that some of the counting is incorrect is when I notice unusual patterns in the traffic. Then it's back to the ritual - go into the configuration page for each project, and create a blocking cookie ..... yet again.

If blocking status showed on the My Projects page, that would help.

[Nikkodemus]

Had a problem previously when the blocking cookie just seemed to stop working at random. This glitch went away for a while and now I share the bigger problem!

Have been working on my site today and now find that each time I have accessed a file on my hard drive it has shown up on the StatCounter log complete with the path, as in /D:/Folder/File.htm

StatCounter assures me my visits are not being logged!

Anyone else had this experience - or know how I can fix it? Could it be a Firefox issue...but it seems to happen with IE as well?

Cheers,

Nick

[webado]

Cookies gone

[Nikkodemus]

Don't think so, Christina - just checked again and it's there. As a sort of double-check, visted my web site via the internet (without going near any of the files on my computer!) and the visit has not shown up.

It only seems to happen when I open a local file - and possibly only in Dreamweaver, which I don't use to upload. The first SC log entry does not show any address, and then the addresses shown for the next entries are all local paths.

Will try starting to log my visits (!), and then stopping again to see if that solves it.

Cheers,

Nick

[webado]

Oh, yes, I remember now, locally it may show, if you use Dreamweaver to view. I think DW uses only a portion of IE or Firefox to do this, maybe the portion that bypasses cookies. Also javascript may have a bit of a problem with url/referrer information when it's on the localhost machine.

[webado]

Oh, yes, I remember now, locally it may show, if you use Dreamweaver to view. I think DW uses only a portion of IE or Firefox to do this, maybe the portion that bypasses cookies. Also javascript may have a bit of a problem with url/referrer information when it's on the localhost machine.