A couple of years ago, I heard that the internet’s “free counters” “were not very good”.
Yet, I tried a couple of them, because they promised to tell me the visiting IPs’ country of origin – something my company’s host was not already doing.
Both of the free counters required me to paste their JavaScript on every page, of my firm’s website – which I did – but rarely were visiters ever detected, by these services.
Yet, my host’s counter consitently reported numerous visitors.
My host employs Urchin, which merely reports data generated by the host’s server. So, everytime some one visits the website, that server automatically enters the visiting IP into a log and, at the start of the next day, this previous day’s information is reported, by Urchin.
Recently, I pasted JavaScript for “Pay Per Impression” ads, at my company’s website.
The ads show, on every page, but, once again, extremely-few visitors are being detected.
The codes seem to know when I visit the site, though.
In addition, I have reasons to believe that the Urchin numbers are accurate.
Yet, something is not right.
Recently, my host said that JavaScripts are only as good as the people who make them.
Further, that company expects proper JavaScript code to generate higher visitor counts than the server log, because the log does not distinguish between multiple people who use the same IP.
Increasingly, I am leaning towards the theory that those codes are obsolete and, so, are not getting the cooperation, from browsers, they require.
Before I confront the ad firm (which I think is trying to conduct an honest business), again, would anyone have any pearls of wisdom, to share, regarding this matter?