On 18 Feb 2011, at 8:51 AM, Green, Necie wrote:
Hello,
I’m in search of guidelines for using hit counters on websites. I
know this is passé, but I need an authoritative source that I can
quote to our customers, to back up our policy on not adding hit
counters to our site. Is this information noted on W3C.org? I
searched around and couldn’t find it but perhaps I’m not looking in
the right place. Thanks for your help!
Hello Necie,
Unfortunately, I don't have generic guidance regarding hit counters.
If the hit counter is to provide information to the site owner, then I
think you can say that Web logs provide a lot more useful information
and so they should invest in log analysis.
I'm not sure why users of the site themselves need to know hit counts.
Ian
Necie Green
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