How to See How Many Daily Hits a Web Page Receives

A "hit" is a number that indicates how many times people have navigated to your Web page, so this is essential information for knowing how your website is performing. Further, you can track certain pages on a site to see which ones are the best received and find those that may need work. Whether you are a Web page creator or are just curious about how certain Internet sites are doing, you can easily see how many daily hits a Web page receives.

Instructions

Check Your Own Page

1

Access a Web daily hit counter such as 123count.com, onestatfree.com, seehits.com or Google Analytics (see References and Resources). Sign up for a new account with your chosen provider by clicking the "Register," "New Account" or "Access Analytics" button, and fill in the required information, such as the website address, when prompted.

2

Click the "Add new profile" link in Google Analytics, enter the URL of your page address and then copy the code that automatically appears. With onestatfree.com and seehits.com, check your email so that you can get this code. If using123count.com, simply log in to your account to get the information. This code is what tracks the daily hits to your website and is used in the next step.

3

Launch an HTML text editor, and open all of the Web pages that you want to monitor. Paste the code from the preceding step before the closing "" tag of each page unless otherwise instructed by the provider. Save your files, and place them on your Web host to make the counter active.

4

Log in to your Google Analytics account page (if applicable), click the "Dashboard" section and then click the "Visitors" link on the left to see your daily hits. With 123count.com, click the "Check Stats" button to get this information, and with the other providers, simply log in to your account.

Check Someone Else's Page

5

Access a daily counter site such as cubestat.com or statbrain.com (see Resources).

6

Type the Web address in the "Enter website" or "Enter URL" text field, and then click the "Check" button.

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View the daily hits listed under the "Estimated Data" section for cubestat.com and "Visitors" section for statbrain.com to get an approximation of the site's performance.