Does anyone know of any script that can be used to count the number of hits to a web page or a site. Is it possible using java script. I have my own doubts about the use of java script for the purpose. Are there any scripts available to be used on the web page to count the number of hits to a site.

Thanks.

You might consider using a web site that provides this service. Not only are they useful and easy to set up, but they also give you detailed information on your visitors.

Of course, if (and when) you get hosted here at Astahost, you will have enough information in the cPanel. But until then, I would advise you to use www.statcounter.com.

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Getting to know the number of visitors on your site will really help you to understand more about what your visitors need and how you can provide those.The more advanced script you use more things you can get to know about your site visitors/users

Coming back to your question I will surely reccomend you Google Analytics, it is one of the best piece of script around to check your website OR page stats.It is completely free.

Visit http://analytics.google.com for acquiring more information about this service.I think you need a Google Account for using this, but hey that is easily available.

Good Luck

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And, of course, if you are hosted at astahost, don't forget the astahost counter. You reach it from your cpanel control, in the "cgi scripts" section" , it annouces what it does :


If you prefer an independant counter site, have a look at http://www.statcounter.com/ it's free and it's rather complete.

Cool. thanks for the info.
I was about to add a counter to my page from another website but since you pointed this out,

I'll use that.

Thanks.

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Yeah, Stat Counter is great for being free. I use it. It's much better than "add free stats" and several others where they actually put ads on your counter. Stat Counter also offers FREE invisible counters as well. It's a great service, highly recommended!

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Yes, I also use the invisible counters, because they show you where people go when they visit your site.

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You may want also to check for Gostats free analytics & website hit counter.

It's available as both free and payed service (with more features) from  http://gostats.Com

Well go to youe cpanel and you will got a good open sour guest viewer.
I think webanalizer is good one.
you can go to any 3rd party software that you want.

I have never used a hit counter because I have never felt the need of doing so. I am a big fan of Google Analytics and when you use this great service, you won't need to use anything else. It not only shows the number of hits your pages receive, but also a lot of other valuable analysis. The greatest part of this service is that it is completely free.

Google analytics is getting more devilish and is fetching data from publishers website and based on that filtering the google search. For this reason i'm switching from google analytics to reinvigorate. This analytics is similar to google analytics and their freebie plan also gives you much better stats than google analytics. You can also get heatmap - links where people are clicking. This type of data is much accessible from analytics like this than google.

I'm moving away from services like google because they're getting too much data about our server, hosted files and interaction by using such scripts. I'm not going to give my data so openly to search engine like that. Anything is better than evil google analytics, me thinks.

So far these are the tested analytics which perform much better than google analytics for me.

Piwik
reinvigorate (snoop)
icerocket tracker
histats
mint

These analytics services can replace google analytics and so are worth to use for those who operate affiliate sites or sites with google adsense ads.

Just installed W3COunter on one website and the data is fetched for this week. I also got report fo the data and everything is similar to analytics. In fact it is more easy to access the information than analytics. I have noticed lack of goals and conversion feature in w3counter which you can usually find in analytics. You'll find that w3counter uses javascript and flash for the displaying the data related to website. It's much faster on any normal browser compared to analytics. You can join it for free with one site profile. For multiple sites and advanced feature like analytics and live view. You need to get pro subscription which costs only 30 dollars per 6 months. For one year subsctiption they charge 80$. You can use even free with 2-3 email accounts. That will be fine as well.

The reason analytics shouldnt be used is because if you're using affiliate marketing site then google can penalize you. Most of the backlinks are easily checked by google and that is one reason we should avoid analytics for affiliate sites. For adsense sites, you can use it to track the adsense data. One more reason you should not use analytics is because of lack of live features which you can only get with other analytics sites like piwik, w3counter etc. So i suggest going for these analytics if you're into affiliate marketing. My experience with W3counter is good and i can suggest it to my friends who are into affiliate marketing. Surely they'll benefit from this feature.

If you want less flashy interface with complete stats and details then icerocket tracker is one good analytics to track or to use. It's similar to w3counter but much easy and quick to load on low internet connection speed.

Just one update here. Icerocket seems to be having a lot of downtime these days. So if you wish to have uninterrupted analytics service then consider any other package for now. I lost some of my data and the stats with icerocket for now. I don't know if it's even worth using anymore. There is not even any email or stuff from them, they just got downtime and account removed just like that. So not worth investing time if you're serious about your analytics and the stats. Much better to use third part with some limitations rather than using software like icerocket. Instead you can look for woopra, open web analytics, w3counter or some other free and non-google or microsoft softwares. That way you can surely use the stats without any interuption and don't have to worrt about the data or stat loss.

I checked open web analytics when i lost icerocket on one blog. Open web analytics offers you a better package of analytics similar to google analytics with features inside your wordpress blog. You can also have standalone features and sevrices but if you're running wordpress then they do offer entier package under plugins. So you just have to use it under your wordpress dashboard. Just download the zip file and upload it to wordpress plugins folder. Then there will be plugin activation inside your wordpress blog. You'll be able to update and use open web analytics from the wordpress dashboard itself. I don't suggest this method for those who have multiple installation under same hosting account. In such case better to get single site hosted somewhere and from there you can always get the open web analytics stats. Few more points about this software is that it is totally free and open source. You get the source and do anything with it within open source license. It is free and regularly updated. Some of the features mimics google analytics type reports and stats. So in short it is one good stat package to have for those who want alternative to analytics service like google and icerocket.

I agree with starscream about google analytics, I don't use it myself anymore and don't suggest to use it for others too.

Because google analytics is used so widely, almost every page has it and it can really trace from where and where you browse if it would really want to and you give so much information to it.

Usually a host provides something like awstats, which I always try to look at, but services like google analytics and others offering similar services, I think it's best if there would be a lot of interdependent services like that and not one which all would be using, it would be much better for all the users

Sometimes where are problems with these kind of services when they trace the site with or without www in the url, which is sometimes annoying.

If we're using linux hosting and cpanel then we get free awstats, webtemp and one more stat script installed by default on our hosting account. You can consider login into the cpanel and check it if you want. I found these scripts less informative as they have some weird UI and presentation of stats. There are some missing things as well. Like unique events and unique pages. But these type of server log scripts are much better than the web page based scripts because they can crawl certain type of bots which normally analytics and other scripts can't do. This is what i noticed personally when i found that one foriegn web crawler from china does the crawling on my server. I thought it could get registered in google analytics but it doesn't. So in case of those webalizer and awstats, these crawlers and the browsers which are not yet registered by the analytics can be easily found. Atleast in my case i found them useful and registered under these stats programs.

That aside, if you can't trust the server logs for some reason. Or want someone to show your stats then consider using histats.com. Note that it is "histats and not hitstats". Both are different and have totally different way to crawl and manage stats on server. You don't have to use google analytics to know your stats. As i said earlier if you're into affiliate marketing consider using server logs like awstats or webtemp or webalizer. If not that then histats, icerocket and some other stat software which work on web are enough for you to keep track of traffic. I may review any other new analytics script in the future in this thread if i get some time. :-)

There are many distinguishing features of a hit counter, some stay plain and simple and increment every time a person visits a particular page regardless of any other factors. Other are slightly more advanced and increment only if the person visiting has an IP that hasn't been recorded before, and others go even further and track users who have visited before using cookies and other methods to prevent a unique user count from incrementing if the same person has already visited (even with a different ip), and then you get the ones that use all kinds of tracking information and so on and pull all kinds of data from the user to be used for nefarious purposes mwahahahaha lol

For a simple hit counter that increments only when a new IP visits the site then get a hosting account with a mysql database (like astahost for instance), create the following table:



The on your home page where you want to place the counter insert the following php script:



or something similar to that anyway, I've had a lot to drink so my php functions may not be spelled correctly or my code format may be out of whack, either way that's a very simple, very secure and very effective hit counter...I think...lol

You lucky man, my sql queries have a lot of syntax errors without driniking any beer!

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