| Counter and Elapsed Time Display |
| At the bottom of (almost) every page on this Website is a widget that looks like this
Counters
The number on the top left hand side is a cumulative total and shows how many times all the pages on the whole of this site have been visited.
The number on the top right hand side is the count for the current page (the one you are on) only.
Timers
The numbers at the bottom left (that look like 00:00:00) indicate how much time has elapsed since someone visited a page anywhere on this site.
The right one tells you how long ago this page was visited by someone else.
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| Purpose of Counters and Elapsed timers |
They are handy for two reasons:
Counters give you an idea of the popularity of a particular page. This helps if you are not sure what to download - If it has a high counter value it means people have downloaded this file often and maybe you should too :-)
Elapsed timers help you to figure out, probably better than the counters, when last a page was visited but more importantly, they allow you to get a feel for how busy the site is at any particular time. If most of the timers on the pages you go to have values of a few seconds, you are on the site at a busy time of the day and your downloads might be slow.
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