Hi,
Does anyone know of a program or widget that I can have on my desktop to monitor the hit counter on my website.
I would prefer to have something small that updates regularly on the desktop than having to go to the page to check. Is this even possible?

Thanks for any suggestions.

Hi 'Wildchild2'.Came across this Website counter.Might be worth checking out.I can give you a link if you want to have a look at more.Hope this Helps.

http://www.statcounter.com/free_hit_counter.html

Thanks for the reply.
I already have a hit counter on my website. What I would like is something independent, like a widget, that I could have sitting on my desktop and it would monitor the hit counter instead of me having to go to the site to check. I thought I might be able to maybe use a .gif image and insert the code for the hit counter.

Try this web page...I unfortunately cannot view it here at work.

www.bluechillies.com/list.html?k=hit+counter

Do you mean you want a hit counter that is independent of your website?

Yeah, groovicus. Can that be done?

Sure it's possible. I don't know of any specific programs that can do it, but depending on your programming ability and the loggin capabilities of your server, you could do a couple of different things. If your server logs distinct IPs that connect to the website, a simple script could be written to email the stats to you. or a script could be written that pings the server for stats, etc. There are any number of ways that it could be accomplished.

I just noticed that there were two other replies before mine. When I submitted mine, it was directly underneath DSTM's post.... weirdness.

Hi,
Just wanted to let you know how I got on with this.

I couldn't find anything to do what I wanted to do so I went with an online monitor that I can log into.
The program is OneStatFree. Available here http://www.onestatfree.com/
It monitors the visitor stats and page views, quite a comprehensive report actually.
See screenshot for layout.



I am quite happy with this little program.