Question

Could anyone helps me by giving the answer for my question.
Here is the question…
How can we count the number of hits on our website for the day using c#

Thanks,
Bharath

Answer 1

Just create a counter and a persistence way to keep the values. This can be a File or Database.

The code below is for learning proposes, you should use an existing service for this as it’s much more efficiency and you will not have lock problems if to many hits happen in the same time

create a new Class for example:

public static class PageHitCounter
{
  private String fileTemplate = "dailyHits_{0:yyyyMMdd}.txt";
  private DateTime now = DateTime.Now;

  public static void Add() 
  {
    // we'll create one file per day
    // lets append a new user hit to a file
    TextWriter tw = new StreamWriter(getFilename(now), true);
    // let's write the date and something else, f.ex. the browser info
    tw.WriteLine(String.Format("{0:dd-MM-yyyy};{1}", 
                               now, 
                               Request.ServerVariables["HTTP_USER_AGENT"]);
    // close the file
    tw.Close();
  }

  public static int Count(DateTime day) 
  {
    int hits = 0;
    // let's open the file and count how many lines, 
    //    as we are adding one line per hit
    using (var reader = File.OpenText(getFilename(day)))
      while (reader.ReadLine() != null)
        hits++;
    return hits;
  }

  private string getFilename(Datetime day) 
  { 
    return Server.MapPath("~/App_Data/" + String.Format(fileTemplate, day));
  }
}

in Code:

Page_Load(...) {

    PageHitCounter.Add();

}

when you want to see how many hits, you can use

PageHitCounter.Count( DateTime.Now );

If you have a lot of pages and don’t want to do this on each one, and assuming your project is WebForms, you can create a MasterPage and append this Add() to the MasterPage OnLoad event or you can create your own page and implement the code.

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As an option to your real problem, you can use Woopra service for live results, I use in some forums and it’s quite lovely see all users, you just need to create an account and use their javascript code in all your footer (normally we use a master page and just append in one file)