Continual counter regardless of page refresh

Question

I have this piece of jQuery that currently increments a number by one every 5 seconds. The problem I have is that its client side, therefore it resets every time you refresh

Answer 1

It comes down to two simple choices for you. Just choose the right one which better fits your requirement:

Choose Cookie : If you want the server side to access the counter. Remember cookies are sent along with the requests by default.

Choose Local Storage : If you don't want to send the counter along with requests every time, you are supposed to go for local storage.