fix: display an error as 'error' for GoatCounter

[manabu-nakamura]

Type of change

• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Improvement (refactoring and improving code)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to not work as expected)
• Documentation update

Description

#2412 (reply in thread):
It's difficult to determine if "1 views" is an error.

• disable "Allow adding visitor counts on your website" in GoatCounter's Settings: NG
  
• enable "Allow adding visitor counts on your website" in GoatCounter's Settings: OK
  

⬇️

• disable "Allow adding visitor counts on your website" in GoatCounter's Settings: NG
  
  or
  
  or
  
  or
  
• enable "Allow adding visitor counts on your website" in GoatCounter's Settings: OK
  

https://www.goatcounter.com/help/visitor-counter:

Note: you will need to enable “Allow adding visitor counts on your website” in your site settings; this defaults to off to prevent unintentional leaking of data.

Additional context

None

[SoumyaK4]

@manabu-nakamura it's not an error.
1 is the default value.
And usually it's shown if goatcounter is blocked by your adblocker or dns

[manabu-nakamura]

it's not an error.

Even if it isn't an error...

1 is the default value. And usually it's shown if goatcounter is blocked by your adblocker or dns

It's odd that "1 views" would imply such a situation.

The initial value is 0 instead of 1.

#1543

[SoumyaK4]

@manabu-nakamura the image you shared with '0' is from last year.

Check this #2412 (reply in thread)

[manabu-nakamura]

the image you shared with '0' is from last year.

No, the images are screenshots I took at https://manabu-nakamura.github.io/jekyll-theme-chirpy/ yesterday.

[manabu-nakamura]

For 2.5 months I couldn't figure out correctly what "1 views" meant...

I tried various displays:

• pv.innerText = 'error';
  
• pv.innerText = '-';
  
• pv.innerText = '❌';
  
• pv.innerText = '🆖';
  

[SoumyaK4]

Oh that's weird, did you update the pageview code? That was updated recently? Here #2412 (reply in thread)

[manabu-nakamura]

Oh that's weird, did you update the pageview code? That was updated recently?

Sorry. I tried various displays.

[manabu-nakamura]

I think this is an error hiding (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_hiding):

Information about the error is lost, which makes it very hard to track down problems.