[Sigia-l] Site Counters - good or bad

[d.brodale]

On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Jan Knight wrote:

> I'm looking for support for the notion that counters on web sites are
> not a good idea ...

Ask yourself: What meaningful information does a 'counter' convey
to site visitors toward accomplishing the tasks that drove them
to the site in the first place?

Except in narrowly constrained cases, counters strike me as not
much more than window dressing.

-don