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Posted by Zara Sales
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Zara Sales
UX Design Techdegree Student 787 Points

Question about website

Hi, I have my website build using HTML, CSS , Javascript .

I want to display number a counter on my website which will increment every time any user over the world visits my website.

I do not have any database, I read online that for this I have to create a database but I do not know how and what code I need. Can anyone help me?

Steve Hunter Steven Parker Andy Artz Nick Pettit

1 Answer

Rich Donnellan
MOD
Rich Donnellan
Treehouse Moderator 27,671 Points
Rich Donnellan
Rich Donnellan
Treehouse Moderator 27,671 Points

You probably don't want to code this up from scratch. I can't point you to a reputable source since this isn't generally implemented anymore, but if you do a basic search for "visitor counter for website", you should find something.

Check out this thread for a discussion as to why it's not common (circa 2015):

https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/83819/why-are-visitor-counters-for-websites-not-used-any-more

Zara Sales
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Zara Sales
UX Design Techdegree Student 787 Points

You have a point