I may be speaking from the bias of my comfort zone but hosting the pdf on any modern cloud storage (gs, s3, etc) should give you this for "free."
On Thu, Feb 24, 2022, 08:19 <[email protected]> wrote: > > It’s like it’s 1995 again :-). Here’s a resource for scripts but to use > them your hosting server will need to have CGI > capabilities: > > http://www.scriptarchive.com <http://www.scriptarchive.com/> > > For a lot of reasons I would recommend not adding counters to your page > and instead glean stats from your access files. > > Kevin > > On Thu, 24 Feb 2022, Michael Barnes wrote: > > > It seems like I have forgotten more than I knew in the first place. > > > > Anyhow, I have a small website for a group that is just a simple > hand-coded > > page and a pdf file for download. I have been asked if it is possible to > > add a visitor counter and a download counter (This page has been visited > ## > > times, This file has been downloaded ## times) to the page. I don't need > > any kind of tracking or anything, just a raw count of page accesses and > > file downloads. > > > > My coding skills are passing fast, and I'm looking for something really > > simple. I did a quick search and everything I see seems to involve > > complicated databases and analytics. I want KISS. > > > > Thanks, > > Michael > >
