A webpage counter in it's simplest form is
put on to your Webpage to count the amount of visitors to
your website and counts these visits or hits "as known"
to your website!!
A webpage counter can be in a graphical or textural format
and each time someone visits your page the counter increments
by one digit thus recording their visit to your page.
So say your counter on your webpage is at 100 and someone
visits your page then your counter would now be 101, Essentially
which ever one you decide to choose as just a webpage counter
they all do similar or the same job and that is counting
your visitors additionally some are called trackers as well
do the job of analysing the data received from the webpage
counter although you may pick a particular type for specific
reasons.
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