removing request counter in footer....

[Sid04]

I read that the request counter on the bottom of the page causes slower page loads. If this is true, whats the best way to remove it?

 

Any other quick things that will speed up page loads? Thanks! B)

[Wendy James]

Using an FTP program download the catalog/includes/footer.php and edit out this.

 

<td align="right" class="footer">  <?php echo $counter_now . ' ' . FOOTER_TEXT_REQUESTS_SINCE . ' ' . $counter_startdate_formatted; ?>  </td>

 

that will leave the date though, so if you want to ditch that as well then just remove

 

<table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1">

<tr class="footer">

<td class="footer">  <?php echo strftime(DATE_FORMAT_LONG); ?>  </td>

<td align="right" class="footer">  <?php echo $counter_now . ' ' . FOOTER_TEXT_REQUESTS_SINCE . ' ' . $counter_startdate_formatted; ?>  </td>

</tr>

</table>

[Sid04]

Using an FTP program download the catalog/includes/footer.php and edit out this.

 

<td align="right" class="footer">  <?php echo $counter_now . ' ' . FOOTER_TEXT_REQUESTS_SINCE . ' ' . $counter_startdate_formatted; ?>  </td>

 

that will leave the date though, so if you want to ditch that as well then just remove

 

<table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1">

<tr class="footer">

<td class="footer">  <?php echo strftime(DATE_FORMAT_LONG); ?>  </td>

<td align="right" class="footer">  <?php echo $counter_now . ' ' . FOOTER_TEXT_REQUESTS_SINCE . ' ' . $counter_startdate_formatted; ?>  </td>

</tr>

</table>

 

I commented out that line using //, and the requests stayed there and "//" appeared above the date. If I comment out "require(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'counter.php');" it kills the numbers for the request but stay says "requests since". :blink:

[FalseDawn]

You can't comment out HTML using // - that's for PHP.

Remove the code entirely.

[Sid04]

thanks, guess i should have used html comments then :)

 

should I comment out the "require DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'counter.php');" line as well?

[FalseDawn]

Yes, since there's little point running the query to determine the page views if you are not going to display the results...