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Gcount version 1.2 and Netfirms No Unique counts

Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2011 12:32 am
by Jazzman
I am using Netfirms as my hosting company, and they have listed in their install scripts Gcount.

I installed it and followed all the instrucions and it works well and increments for every page refresh, Except.

If I change the

$count_unique = 0;
and change it to:
$count_unique = 1;

to be able to track Unique clicks it never increments the number. It just stays at zero. I double checked by using another pc and still stays at zero.

Am I missing something. The instructions merely said to replace the zero with a 1 like above.



Thanks for the help.

Re: Gcount version 1.2 and Netfirms No Unique counts

Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2011 8:19 pm
by Klemen
Does it help if you clean your cookies?

If not please post the link to your script so we can test it.

Re: Gcount version 1.2 and Netfirms No Unique counts

Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2011 9:39 pm
by Jazzman
Hello and thanks for helping.

You are right I cleared my cookies and refreshed and the counter went up by 1. I then used a proxy and tried loading the page and it did not increment. I then cleared cookies again and it incremented.

Is this correct?

Thanks again

Re: Gcount version 1.2 and Netfirms No Unique counts

Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2011 9:24 am
by Klemen
It uses cookies to count unique visits so yes, you should only be counted once unless you clean cookies (or wait the number of hours set in $unique_hours, default 24).

Re: Gcount version 1.2 and Netfirms No Unique counts

Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2011 5:19 pm
by Jazzman
Thank you Klemen for your help, and the explanation.

:)