When presented with this type of code this
means you get a counter (when this code is placed on your
page) that presents you with just a sum total from your
account and does not increment at all on every refresh every
time the page is visited but gives you just the total amount
of visitors or clicks on your account! This is mainly used
to give you an active total of your actual active counter
or counters placed elsewhere on your site or on other sites.
This is particularly useful in the case of the link tracker,
i.e. you would have a link placed on your page that everyone
clicks to either go to another site or download a file,
and of course this never presents you with an active total?
So a static counter is employed to give you this total on
your page and will never count unless someone clicks on
the link.
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