[wp-hackers] WP.com Stats Image

[Jeremy Visser]

Chris Poteet wrote:
> Ok, this is weird.  Why on blogs that use WP.com stats (mine inparticular is
> a stand-alone installation with the plugin) does it put this little emoticon
> in the footer?
> 
> http://stats.wordpress.com/g.gif

I actually don't know anything about this for sure, but I would hazard a
guess that they use an image because browsers generally download them
only once, as opposed to HTML pages, so you can measure hits versus visits.

Image download == visit.

Of course, I may be completely wrong.