Stat counter on a non-webpage

[GeddyLeeRocks]

Hello All,
My question today is: I have a link for a download (my resume in PDF format) and would like to know if anyone is actually (I hope) downloading my resume. I know there is a box in Edit Setting for additional links but it looks like its only for one page i.e. http://www and http://mydomain.

Can this be done? Can I add my .pdf link?

R

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To answer your question, I don't know.

BUT.

Try an HTML page with an executive summary of your resume. Prominantly on the page put a link to the *.pdf for ''full resume'' or somesuch.

It won't give you exactly what you are looking for, but it will be better than no info.

Also, your post seemed to imply that youonly have the StatCounter code on one page ... you should have it on every page; it can be invisible. It's easy & in the help & FAQ sections.

Luck!

-- logunams

[GeddyLeeRocks]

Thanks! for suggestion - I'll give it a try

BTW - I only have one page

[webado]

Logunams is right that you can only attempt to track the access to a pdf file by channelling it through an html page which can be tracked. The same thing can be said about any files offerred for download, like media files.

Those links you mention are not to instruct Statcounter to track or not to track. They simply isntruct Statcounter reporting software to treat statistics gathered about pages from those addreses as internal or external to the website.

For Statcounter to log access to something, that "thing" has to have the Statcounter code wich is javascript and html - therefore it is by necessity to be included in something that renders as html - i.e. a web page.
It desn't matter if the pages is initially coded in html, javascript, php or asp or who knows what other web language - for it to be shown on the web it is is ultimately rendered as an html page by the browser you use. The Statcounter code has to appear in there in order to track that page.

When you consult a PDF file on the web you will notice that the program Acrobat Reader (or Writer) starts, the same way MS Word starts when you consult a Word document, aor a medis palyer starts for an audio or video file, nd so on. The browser passes these files as is to a resident program you must have on your computer which can understand them. If you don't have those prgrams you cannot open those files.

Since neither are turned into html, they cananot have the Statcounter in them, so they cannot be tracked.

Your hosting tracks accesses to any file by trapping the request to them before the file is actually handed down to the visitor, this is at the server level.

The Statcounter code cannot do this as it doesn't act on behalf of the server software. It only tracks files that have the code in them and are displayed on the visitor's screen by the browser.