IRU's Flag Counter

[Lance]

From here.

On a side note, I noticed the flag portion of the portal page (visits by nation) and was wondering how much it was influenced by that particular thread (and the "up your post count" thread).
Lance, do you know what the flag counter actually counts? Would hits by bots even count?

I have no idea what it actually counts. That's a good question. If you click anywhere in it, it will take you to a detail page but even that isn't completely clear. Let's see if we can figure it out...

It says we have a total of 2,698 visitors from Singapore at the moment, 4 so far today and 3 total yesterday. Mactep, does that correspond with your number of visits here? Or perhaps the number of different IP addresses you may have visited from?

[tubeswell]

I admit I can't understand how it works. Sometimes the K1w1 flag counter changes when I login once. Other times it stays the same, even when I login multiple times over the period of a week.

(Edit: I wonder whether it could be affected by which device you use to login? Maybe it works off the device/portal number thingy? or not? I'm sure that I've logged in more than the ~2,400-odd times the little k1w1 would indicate over the last ~7 years)

[Lance]

I read something about it logging unique visitors per day. So it should count you once per day per device, I think. Though I don't know if that's your day, my day, or a UTC day.

[tubeswell]

... Though I don't know if that's your day, my day, or a UTC day.

Okay, that settles it. My day is ahead of most other people's day, which would explain the higher flag count in this neck of the woods.

[Heid the Ba]

When I post from Spain it doesn't increase at the rate it should, as I use multiple devices and multiple wifi locations.

[Lance]

I suppose it could set a cookie and count a device only once per day regardless of IP.

[Enzo]

I ate four cookies last night - molasses. Sorry, Old Fashioned Molasses.

And again today I had a chocolate chip one.

I neglected to check the flag counter before and after though.

[Мастер]

Mactep, does that correspond with your number of visits here? Or perhaps the number of different IP addresses you may have visited from?

Could be. These days, I have two laptops (one used constantly, one used rarely), five desktops (two used often, one used rarely, two never used), three phones (one used often, two rarely used), and a tablet (often used).

Because of some login difficulties at this site, I am sometimes using multiple browsers on the same computer. I think cookies are browser-specific, aren't they?

[Lance]

Yes, cookies are specific to the browser.