Posted by Animesh K on 01/25/08 21:52

Michael Fesser wrote:
> .oO(Krustov)
>
>> <Jerry Stuckle>
>>
>>> No counters look "professional". They are just a way for amateurs to
>>> pump their egos.
>> Is it you who decides for everybody else what is or isnt professional .
>
> Hit counters are _never_ professional. They are of no interest for the
> users (use rand() if you want to show an impressive number to them) and
> the real informations are available in the server's logfile.
>
> Micha

People do have page-view (counter) information on websites and it helps
the viewer in understanding popularity of that particular page.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=mOeuar5LmtU

For example this has been viewd 280,XXX times, voted 510 times, and has
a 4-* rating. All these are "counters" of different kind and provide a
lot of information related to this particular video.

Perhaps you mean that stuff like sitemeter is boring, but it isn't
completely useless or unprofessional.

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