Frames : my referring URL is always my frameset page

[webmaster-igb]

Hello,

I built my site with frames but I have a problem with the green link "referring URL" in my "Recent Visitor Activity" page : it is almost always my site's URL : www.bogdanov.ch ! Sometimes it is "no referring link", sometimes other pages amongst the frameset : http://www.bogdanov.ch/Barre-titre.htm or http://www.bogdanov.ch/Barre-menu.htm ...

I thought that it was because I had put the code statcounter.com only in my page http://www.bogdanov.ch/Accueil.htm (as it is said in the help pages), so I put it also in the index.html page and these pages : http://www.bogdanov.ch/Barre-titre.htm and http://www.bogdanov.ch/Barre-menu.htm , but nothing has changed (except the number of page loads, of course !).

So, please explain me what I can do in order to know where my visitors come from ! I hope my question is comprehensible, I know my english is bad

Thanks a lot,
Laurence

[webado]

You must use the "frames" version of the counter on the individual pages. You have that option during Install Code.

The framesetter page itself should not have the counter except possibly as you have it, in the <noframes> section, and in that case it should be the regular one, just as you installed it there.

[webmaster-igb]

Originally Posted by chrisooc

You must use the "frames" version of the counter on the individual pages. You have that option during Install Code.

Thank you for your answer, but I don't understand well : do you mean that the code I've copy-pasted in the pages of my site is not the right one ? But I've verified, it's the one I got after I had coched the case "Yes, my website uses frames" !

Originally Posted by chrisooc

The framesetter page itself should not have the counter except possibly as you have it, in the <noframes> section, and in that case it should be the regular one, just as you installed it there.

I knew that I shouldn't have put the counter in this page and that it could make the numbers wrong, but I thought that so I could see the pages which my visitors came from, and it's more important for me than getting very precise numbers...
But anyways, it still doesn't work ! And so, you mean that the code I've on my framesetter page is for the sites without frames ??? So what is the difference between both codes, and what must I do to get the right code ?

Thank you a lot if you can help me again for that !
Laurence

[webado]

The main difference between the "regular" code and the "frames" version of the code is the notion of referer. That's a javascript implementation. For framed pages the actual javascript referer is always the framesetter page, therefore what is used instead is the parent referer rather than that immediate referer.

From what I see the wizard generates the code correctly as long as you provide the correct answer to the prompts. Perhaps you missed it when you did.

At this point what you can do is either regenerate the code correctly and reinsert it on your pages, or simply go and edit what you already have on each page and replace ".../counter.js " by ".../frames.js" in the javascript of the code you have. This has to be done to the code on all your framed pages.

One other thing. You have to designate which of your frames actually contains the meaningful pages you want tracked. The page displayed in a frame that remains constant, like a menu or title bar should not carry counter code, it should be the pages that get displayed in the frame that changes only.

[webmaster-igb]

I did what you said and it works !

Great, thank you a lot for your ability and your kindness !

Laurence

[webado]

You're welcome. Glad to have helped.