After some thought, we have decided to dump our bravenet counter. While it is nice having the # of site hits on our front page, the figure is really not that accurate. For example, the rolling 1 year avg. # of page hits is around 650,000. The number of individual visits per month is nearly 12,000 people! The other issue is performance. If bravenet goes off line, it negatively impacts our site. Have you ever tried to bring up the site and get a javascript error or tremendous wait? It also takes longer for the page to load as your computer has to not only connect to the radio server, but to bravenet server too.
So, we have replaced our counter with a site stats program that runs directly from our web server. It has a ton of information and will be good to attract advertisers and musicians to the site. (after they find out our numbers! There is a little icon on the front of our page in the bottom border that has this icon. Give it a try. I think we will post some monthly figures right about the stats icon, etc.
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