Can't install invisible count

[nanj]

Three out of 4 of my blogs have invisible counters installed. I tried to change the remaining one to invisible but it continues to be visible. I even restarted the computer & it doesn't make a difference. I have a Mac running OS 10.4.

In general, however, I will second the person who offered their thanks for a great free service!

One last thing. I wish someone would explain to me why one visit by someone turns into what looks like more than one--in some instances about 10--when they aren't. You can tell by the time recorded it was the same visit.

[webado]

You need to give the url of the site where you are having problem with the invisible counter.

As for unique visitor counts, that's because people who don't accept cookies (in particular third party cookies) cannot be recognized as returnibg visitors so each hit is counted as a new visitor.

[nanj]

Thanks for replying. It's working now, although I didn't do anything after I stated the problem.

[webado]

Well then it was not a problem of invisible or visible. It must have been a problem of you not being able to connect to the particular Statcounter server for your project and thus seeing the alt text displayed in place of the counter image.

You must have configured the counter image as invisible, however this is unknown to the script until it can actually connect to the project server. So until the actual invisible image makes it down the pipes, the alt text remains visible, as it does whenever an image is broken through non existence or slowness in being served.

The way to solve this problem for the future is to modify this line in your javascript portion of the tracking code:

var sc_invisible=0;

replaced by:

var sc_invisible = 1;

This tells the script right away that the project counter is to be invisible so it will not serve alt text either, thus it remains invisible even if the project server is slow or down.