The Counter component allows you to see the number of encounters while visiting your page.
Every time a visitor comes to your page or reloads it by clicking the Refresh (Reload) button, the counter is increased by one.

The counter is to be inserted in a page, so that visitors could see it. That's why you should have an active Page Editor window. The counter will be inserted at the cursor position.

This component uses the resource files which are inserted in the folder named Counter incorporated in a folder that is set as default for dynamic pages and CGIs. It is the CGI-BIN folder by default. Be sure to not delete these files by accident.

You can change the size of the counter by resizing the applet icon in the page.

The advanced users can modify the properties of the counter by double-clicking the applet icon in the page.
In the Java Applet Properties dialog box, change the values of the following parameters.

The DIGITS parameter defines the number of digits in the counter.

The DELAY parameter defines the refreshing time (in seconds) for periodical checking up the counter value. Once page is opened in the browser, it checks up how many encounters took place from the time of last refreshing. The counter is scrolled up to the new value if needed.

Notes:
To see how a counter works and increases its value, you must generate the site and play that on an actual Web Server.
Counters work in Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or later, and Netscape Communicator 4.5 or later.