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5 Oct 2006, 1:16 PM
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Counter History

Sorry guys, anyone can tell me what does this means?

Counter History for last 10 recorded days
Session - Total
29 - 112

What is the "Session" and the "Total" means??

5 Oct 2006, 1:30 PM
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Re: Counter History

The counter counts two things:

Session count is the number of 1st hits to your site based on unique browser sessions ... more or less this is 1st visit of the day

NOTE: this does not distinquish between someone coming to your site at 9:00am and then returning with a new session at 3:00pm on the same day

The Total is the number of pages viewed ... this counts how many pages does the customer actually go to during that session ...

The database actually contains all the days of the year, unless you delete them manually ...

The display on the Admin Home page will be for the last 10 days ... it will roll over by itself as the site is used ...

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5 Oct 2006, 5:16 PM
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Re: Counter History

thank you!

12 Jan 2007, 11:40 PM
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Re: Counter History

Hi Ajeh,

Ajeh:

The counter counts two things:
Session count is the number of 1st hits to your site based on unique browser sessions...

[snip]

The Total is the number of pages viewed ... this counts how many pages does the customer actually go to during that session ...

Looking at my stats for today (sharp spike in hits with below average sessions), I assume this includes search engine spider activity?

If so, is there anyway to configure the counter to ignore these sessions? And maybe selected IP addresses/ranges?

ColinR

6 Feb 2007, 9:19 PM
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Re: Counter History

Bit of an odd one this. The counter in my admin system has started writing 10 duplicates of each session for no reason at all:

02/06/2007 26 - 32
02/06/2007 26 - 32
02/06/2007 26 - 32
02/06/2007 26 - 32
02/06/2007 26 - 32
02/06/2007 26 - 32
02/06/2007 26 - 32
02/06/2007 26 - 32
02/06/2007 26 - 32
02/05/2007 62 - 97

Anyone else experiencing/experienced this?

TIA

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7 Feb 2007, 1:13 AM
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Re: Counter History

Very odd ...

Look at your database in phpMyAdmin at the table: counter_history

Browse it ... do you see duplicates in there?

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13 Feb 2010, 4:01 PM
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Re: Counter History

Count you check if there is a Primary index on the startdate field in the counter_history table ...

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2 Mar 2010, 6:31 PM
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Re: Counter History

Zen Cart Version : Current

I have the same 1969 problem with counter history (No records in table at all) could this have happened when old log files we dumped?
Counter_history does not have a start date field.
counter table does

Any Ideas on who to fix this started 3 weeks ago was working fine for last 7 months.

Thanks for your hrlp

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2 Mar 2010, 7:16 PM
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Re: Counter History

What version of Zen Cart are you running?

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3 Mar 2010, 12:49 PM
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Re: Counter History

This is an interesting thread - I love to pick up little bits of info this way TY!