How does HV/Net count things?
A slightly complex subject, so we will break it down into the different areas for you to understand. There are two methods HV/Net uses to count things, passive and active. Passive counting is used for static presentation pages stored in their entirety on the web server. Examples of these pages would be our Feature Articles, geographically and thematically categorized pages of Business Listings, navigation pages and so on. As these pages are delivered there is embedded on each page a small piece of programming code that makes a call to the server to deliver a specific graphic image, as the image is delivered the download of the page is incremented. Active counting is used whenever a page is delivered to a viewer that doesn’t actually exist on the web server. For instance, if you use the search engine on HV/Net and something is delivered, that page doesn’t actually exist anywhere, it is created programmatically on the fly in response to the query. When you look into the Calendar, the ret
