The counter that's provided by the jAlbum widgets is only slightly better than a random number generator. It doesn't differentiate between you visiting your own page, someone refreshing the page, someone coming back to the page after having seen it a dozen times already, or a search bot hitting the page. In short, it's telling you almost nothing useful.

The tools provided by your webhost, typically something like awstats, will be marginally better, but not wonderful.

Alas, the only semi-reliable way to track visitors to your pages is Google Analytics. And these days, it misses huge numbers of visitors because of various types of browser blocking.

I agree with what Jeff says above, but just so you know…

I believe the problem is with the page type variable and the values used. For widgets to work the page type should be either index or slide. You have used, for example

PAGE_NAME = 'Publications';

I think you would need to change the template so that the pageType variable was equal to ‘index’. That is replace ‘Publications’ with ‘index’ wherever you entered ‘Publications’.

Not tried it but it is what I think is the cause of the widgets not appearing on your custom pages.

Edited by: RobM on 13 Jul 2025, 21:40
Just tested the widgets with several skins and older version of jAlbum. Widgets do not appear on any template pages regardless of the name used for pageType or widgetPageType variables.