Ajax request makes the count continuously increasing

Hello,

I don’t know if i’m miss-using your plugin or if it’s me but given this code:

/**
 * Replace target element inner html
 * @param {*} elementId 
 * @param {*} text 
 */
function replaceTextInElementById(elementId, text){
  document.getElementById(elementId).innerHTML = text;
};

/**
 * Make ajax request and update hits counter
 * @param {*} url 
 * @param {*} elementId 
 */
function updateHitCounterText(url, elementId) {
  return $.ajax('https://hitcounter.pythonanywhere.com/count',{data:{url: url}}).then(hitCount => {
    replaceTextInElementById(elementId, hitCount);
  });
};

const baseUrl = window.origin + '{{ site.baseurl }}';  // i.e: http://localhost:4000/blog
updateHitCounterText(baseUrl, 'total-hits-counter');

The counter is increasing continuously, making it kinda inaccurate. Tbh, that’s not much a problem, but since the image is working as intended (not increasing even if you spam refresh), I was wondering if this was normal 😉

Thanks for reading, and thanks for your simple yet very nice work!

[brentvollebregt]

Looks like it’s working - I also updated the REAMDE 👍

[brentvollebregt]

Ah yes, the origin! Putting the origin in Access-Control-Allow-Origin should work and defaulting it to '*' if no origin is available. I’ll look into this now, thank you.