[pentax]

I want to make a website counter, called through javascript. I have the following question:

what is better/faster/less cpu intensive, to call visitor's number from mysql and write it to image with imagemick or maybe gd library

or

have small pictures of every number, then group them together into a single image file, so I get one image with visitor number.

[pentax]

will anybody help me , please!

[regeurk78]

Well, I think that the second solution is faster and less cpu intensive. But nevertheless I would use gd lib to generate the counter, because it's more professional and the browser has only one file to load.

[pentax]

In both cases we ahve only 1 file to load.

on 1st example we covert a number into a picture;
in 2nd we group small pics on server together into one picture, then send it to user. In 2nd option we can have nicer counters.

[rainydayproject]

Why not just a plain text counter? simple and fast