just figured I needed this one, toyed with it and came up with a solution. This will let you include the total number of hits on your home page. (I'll be using it for the total hits this month, because I have my monthly hits mod working)

in nph-build.cgi, change:
use vars qw(%alpha %category %subcategories @links @new_links @cool_links @pick_links %stats $grand_total $use_html $nph $date $time);
to:
use vars qw(%alpha %category %subcategories @links @new_links @cool_links @pick_links %stats $grand_total $totalhits $use_html $nph $date $time);

in sub build_staggered, after:
$grand_total = 0;
add:
$totalhits = 0;

in sub build_stats, after:
# Add the link to the list of links.
push (@{$links{$category}}, @values) if (!$staggered_mode);
$grand_total++;
add:
# add to total the hits made this month
$totalhits = $totalhits + $values[$db_hits];

then in sub build_home_page after:
print "\tTotal Links: $grand_total\n";
add:
print "\tTotal Hits This Month: $totalhits\n";

Then in site_html_templates.pl, in sub site_html_home, after:
grand_total => $grand_total,
add:
totalhits => $totalhits,

then add <%totalhits%> where you would like it on your homepage.

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