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A hit counter tallies and displays the number of times a page has been visited. You can add a hit counter to your home page so that you and site visitors can see how many times your Web site has been visited, as in the following example.

You are visitor:

Microsoft FrontPage provides several styles of counters, but you can supply your own number graphics by creating a custom picture in GIF (GIF: A graphics file format (.gif extension in Windows) used to display indexed-color graphics on the World Wide Web. It supports up to 256 colors and uses lossless compression, meaning that no image data is lost when the file is compressed.) format. The picture must include the numbers zero (0) to nine (9), evenly spaced.

After you add a hit counter to a page, you can reset the counter to any number. For example, you test a Web site after you publish it to make sure that it is working properly, and then you find that the hit counter has been incremented by your own visits. You can reset the counter to zero to start it over.

Note  You must publish your Web site to a Web server that has the FrontPage Server Extensions (FrontPage Server Extensions: A set of programs and scripts that support authoring in FrontPage and extend the functionality of a Web server.), SharePoint Team Services v1.0 from Microsoft, or Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 installed. Ask your Web server administrator or Internet service provider (ISP) (ISP: A business that provides access to the Internet for such things as electronic mail, chat rooms, or use of the World Wide Web. Some ISPs are multinational, offering access in many locations, while others are limited to a specific region.) whether one of these technologies is installed on your Web server.