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Posted by William Davis
William Davis
5,497 Points

Is there a way to count visits to your site?

Hey, guys. I'm fairly new to the world of html, and I was wondering if there is a way to count the visits to your site. Thanks!

3 Answers

James Anwyl
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James Anwyl
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 49,960 Points

Yep, one way of doing that (and a whole lot more) is with Google analytics. It's a very popular tool used by a lot of websites to track visitor behaviour.

Hope this helps :)

William Davis
William Davis
5,497 Points

Really liking Google Analytics, but it says that the tracking is not installed, although I've uploaded it. Do I have to wait some time? Thanks!

Aurelian Spodarec
Aurelian Spodarec
7,369 Points
Aurelian Spodarec
Aurelian Spodarec
7,369 Points

You can also put it on your site how many visitors went on your side over all by coding it with PHP i believe or JS and put it somewhere on the webpage . Just a little decoration or if you just want it to look nice or something , as well you can put date and many other things :)

But what James Anwyl said tracks your visitors , how many times they clicked on ads click per ratio if you have any , how many visitors visited what page and how many second or minutes or even hours did people stay on one page , average i think . And a lot more :) it takes time to build all. So you can expect to know how to do a completely website and learn all , or most in around a year i believe.

Hope this helps too :)

Dennis Castillo
Dennis Castillo
16,018 Points
Dennis Castillo
Dennis Castillo
16,018 Points

There is another way search on Google and you will find a lots of documentation on creating a visitors counts and there is also a plugins where you can just copy it "PHP Code or HTML and Javascript" from the sites and paste it to your webpage/html files. You can also choose if you want just only a unique IP address OR IP addresses that coming back for every each click on your domain/sites.

One of a good example of this is: http://www.hitwebcounter.com/

Good Luck and God Bless You...