Page Hit Counter System

by Bob Dombroski

I had a client that just wanted a simple report he could easily
see in real time, that would show him only what he wanted to see. He
had 5 requirements.

• How many hits total for any page and all pages.
• How many hits for any and all pages today.
• How many hits for any and all pages this month.
• How many users are currently browsing the site.
• The number of highest simultaneuos connections throughout the
  day.

I had a client that just wanted a simple report he could easily
see in real time, that would show him only what he wanted to see. He
had 5 requirements…

I am sure there are many prepackaged solutions which may have
worked, but the task is simple enough to code in ASP. I decided to
use a database solution to track the hits.

The database table (Access Database) called hits

1. page_name – text field max of 100   (contains the
   page name)
2. total_hits     – long  
   (contains the total hits on page since its inception)
3. day_hits      – long  
   (contains the total hits on page today)
4.   month_hits – long   (contains the total hits
   on page this month)
5.   hit_date     – Date/Time  (the
   date of the current day & month hits)

Pretty simple so far…and it doesn’t get any harder!

I created an include file counter.inc which is included in every
page I want counted. For my client, he did not want the
adminstration pages to inflate his hit counts so the include file
would not be within any of the admin pages.