WWW visitor counter "counter.xbm"

This page has been accessed times since October 16, 1995.

The HTML to do the above bit of magic is:

   <img alt="(unknown)" 
   src="http://www.rice.edu/cgi-bin/counter.xbm?http://riceinfo.rice.edu/web/counter.html">

You can reset your counter to zero by appending an arbitrary string of characters after the URL, perhaps a date. For example:

   <img alt="(unknown)" 
   src="http://www.rice.edu/cgi-bin/counter.xbm?http://riceinfo.rice.edu/web/counter.html-1997">

Limitations:

• Note that counter.xbm isn't foolproof. It's easy to confuse the count. For that reason, counts may be more useful as a curiosity than as a meaningful measure of WWW usage. More meaningful statistics based on the server logs are available for some Rice servers.

• Since it is based on a bitmap, counter.xbm is not friendly to users of lynx or other non-GUI WWW browsers.

• Like any bitmap, a counter.xbm image may be invisible against a black or white background. This depends on your browser, and there is a browser-dependent trick which you can use to get around it: place your counter bitmap in a table with a background color defined. See these black background and white background examples.

• Please do not link to counter.xbm from non-Rice web pages! If you want to use a visitor counter from off-campus, please install your own counter software or use a public counter service (you will find lists of both in Yahoo).

If you have questions or note problems with our local installation of counter.xbm, please send e-mail to "riceinfo@rice.edu".