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- ==================
- Hit counter
- ==================
-
- A PHP, old-school, on-page hit counter which logs unique visitors.
- It counts each unique visitor only once per hour, therefore repeated
- visits or refresh-happy people don’t inflate the count inside of
- 60-minutes.
-
-
- See also
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-
- The blog post: https://cybrkyd.com/post/php-hit-counter/
-
-
- Licence
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-
- This project is made available under a GPL3 licence -- see COPYING
- for the full text.
-
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+ # Hit Counter
+
+ An old-school, on-page PHP hit counter which logs unique visitors. It counts each unique visitor only once per hour, therefore repeated visits or refresh-happy people don't inflate the count inside of 60-minutes.
+
+ ## See also
+
+ The blog post: [https://cybrkyd.com/post/php-hit-counter](https://cybrkyd.com/post/php-hit-counter)
+
+ ## Licence
+
+ This project is made available under a GPL3 licence -- see COPYING for the full text.
+