Visitor Hit Counter

Hello LGW,

First off I would recommend that you stay away from having a page count icon
on your website. Visitors to your website really don't care how many other
visitors preceded them and most are savvy enough now to know that these page
counts mean very little anyway since they count every hit from every source.
Also, having a page count displayed on your website unfortunately screams
amateur. It pretty much ranks up there with the running dog animated image,
or the old blink tag.

On the other hand it is extremely important to know how many visitors are
coming to your site where they come from and how effective your site might
be by engaging visitors and keeping them on your site. Simply counting hits
can't do this. Fortunately most web hosts make some sort of stats engine
available to their customers. Check with your Web host to see if they offer
this feature and if so how to access this information. If they don't offer
this feature I would recommend finding a host that does because most good
commercial hosts offer a very robust stats engine for their customers. You
can also use a service such as Google analytics. The downside to this
however is like-it-or-not, using this service you end up sharing a lot of
your personal site traffic information with Google and in the agreement he
signed to use these services you are basically giving Google permission to
use this information however they wish. If this doesn't bother you then
Google analytics is a great service, but I prefer the stats engines offered
by most votes as this gives you the same information without an invasion of
your privacy or private data.

Hope this helps.

--
Lawrence *Adobe Community Expert*
Cartweaver.com

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Dreamweaver, available in ASP, PHP and CF

"lwieskam" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:gkl4v9$94b$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> Need help, I would like to add visitor hit counter to my web page, I have
> done
> some searching and have found may service that will count for you but I
> would
> prefer to insert the code. I found some JavaScript code but it only
> counts the
> number of times I have been into the site, I want to count every hit to
> the
> home page and since I am new to all of this I need some simple code, any
> ideas?
>
> Thanks
> LJW
>
>

try using google analytics, its free and give u good info re your site
users.

k