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*
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"lwieskam" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in
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> 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
>
>
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