Javascript hitcounter over counting hits

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June 10th, 2008, 04:44 PM

anamasan

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Javascript hitcounter over counting hits

I inherited a website with a javascript hit counter that displays realtime hit counts that are 10 times the hits that google logs for the website. Can someone review the script to help me repair the overcount?

Reply if you want to see the javascript Code

Last edited by anamasan : June 10th, 2008 at 04:45 PM. Reason: message was too long

June 10th, 2008, 05:54 PM

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Ok, I'll bite. Let's see it.

You realise that you can't actually use JavaScript on it's own for
counting hits - it is only a client side scripting language - it has
no way of storing the data gathered.

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June 10th, 2008, 06:46 PM

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yes. its a dynamic website with a database.

Quote:

Originally Posted by ChiefWigs1982

Yes. its a dynamic website with a database. Thanks for your help!
Here is the code:

Code:

var xmlHttp = createXmlHttpRequestObject();

function createXmlHttpRequestObject() 
 {
 var xmlHttp;
 try
  { xmlHttp = new XMLHttpRequest(); }
 catch(e)
  {
  var XmlHttpVersions = new Array("MSXML2.XMLHTTP.6.0",
                                  "MSXML2.XMLHTTP.5.0",
                                  "MSXML2.XMLHTTP.4.0",
                                  "MSXML2.XMLHTTP.3.0",
                                  "MSXML2.XMLHTTP",
                                  "Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
  for (var i=0; i<XmlHttpVersions.length && !xmlHttp; i++) 
   {
   try { xmlHttp = new ActiveXObject(XmlHttpVersions[i]); }
   catch (e) {  }
   }
  }
  //xmlHttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
  if (!xmlHttp) { return; }
  else { return xmlHttp; }
 }

function showCount()
 {
 if (xmlHttp)
  {
  try
   {
   xmlHttp.open("GET", "../count.txt?sid=" + Math.random(), true);
   xmlHttp.onreadystatechange = handleRequestStateChange;
   xmlHttp.send(null);
   }
   catch (e) { return; }
  }
 }

function showCountSec()
 {
 if (xmlHttp)
  {
  try
   {
   xmlHttp.open("GET", "../count.txt?sid=" + Math.random(), true);
   xmlHttp.onreadystatechange = handleRequestStateChangeSec;
   xmlHttp.send(null);
   }
   catch (e) { return; }
  }
 }

function handleRequestStateChange() 
 {
 myDiv = document.getElementById('counter');
 var response = '';
 if (xmlHttp.readyState == 4) 
  {
  if (xmlHttp.status == 200)
   {
   try
    {
    response = xmlHttp.responseText;
    myDiv.innerHTML = formatCommas(response);
    }
   catch(e) { return; }
   } 
  else { return false; }
  }
 }

function handleRequestStateChangeSec() 
 {
 myDiv = document.getElementById('sDoc');
 var response = '';
 if (xmlHttp.readyState == 4) 
  {
  if (xmlHttp.status == 200)
   {
   try
    {
    response = xmlHttp.responseText;
    myDiv.innerHTML = formatCommas(response);
    }
   catch(e) { return; }
   } 
  else { return false; }
  }
 }

function uncache(url)
 {
 var d = new Date();
 var time = d.getTime();
 return url + '&time='+time;
 }

function formatCommas(numString)
 {
 var re = /(-?\d+)(\d{3})/;
 while (re.test(numString)) { numString = numString.replace(re, "$1,$2"); }
 return numString;
 }

Last edited by mehere : June 10th, 2008 at 08:46 PM. Reason: added code tags ... please use [code][/code] tags in the future.

June 11th, 2008, 03:27 AM