why is statcounter showing message on page load?

[pete_b]

Why does statcounter show a silly message while the page is loading? Think it says something like 'statcounter - free website counters'. I don't see the point, you see it for half a second and it looks really unprofessional. Is there any way i could hide it, as sometimes it doesn't disappear.

Also, am i allowed to edit the code? I want to remove the link in the noscript tags, but that doesn't matter and i doubt i'll be allowed anyway.

Peter

[rotarysteve]

Originally Posted by pete_b

Why does statcounter show a silly message while the page is loading? Think it says something like 'statcounter - free website counters'. I don't see the point, you see it for half a second and it looks really unprofessional. Is there any way i could hide it, as sometimes it doesn't disappear.

Also, am i allowed to edit the code? I want to remove the link in the noscript tags, but that doesn't matter and i doubt i'll be allowed anyway.

Peter

That message should go away fairly soon, if it hasn't already. I think some statcounter projects had some problems today, I know my site did, but it has cleared up now. The reason you see the text is SC wasn't returning images and you get the alternate text instead. For editing the code, I would recommend not doing so.

[Arne]

And removing the link between <noscript></noscript> will not make any difference to 90+ per cent of your visitors. That part is seen only by visitors that has browsers without Javascript support, or have disabled Javascript.

[pete_b]

Yeh i know what it does

[webado]

You cn remove the noscript tag - all that will happen is javascript disabled visitros (including robots) will not be logged.

This is not what's causing the alt text to be shown for you now.

It comes from the actual Statcounter script which is trying to connect to the server which has your project on it, and that't not responding fast enough, thus you see the image placeholder.

One option to avoid seeing the alt text would be to use the code for invisible, which adds this to the first javascript:

var sc_invisible = 1;

[pete_b]

It's already got that variable

[webado]

What's the url to your site?

[rotarysteve]

both the visible and invisible versions of the code have the image tag in it, so I think that is why you still got the alt text.

[webado]

Hmm, yes, as far as the noscript goes.

But the remote javascript uses this:

if(window.sc_invisible==1) {
sc_img = new Image();
sc_img.src = sc_tracking_url;
}
else {
document.writeln(sc_link_back_start+"<IMG SRC=\""+sc_tracking_url+"\" ALT=\"StatCounter - Free Web Tracker and Counter\" BORDER=\"0\">"+sc_link_back_end);
}

So if the variable sc_invisible is set to 1 (i.e. true) then the image will not be displayed through an img tag, and there is no alt text.

[rotarysteve]

I'm following you on that, lol, that makes sense .

Though I wonder if there was a connectivity/server issue, and the external JS file didn't load either, then would that alt text show??