Note: Never use a hit counter that is visible on any of your web pages. Visible hit counters look amateur and you’ll lose credibility if you have one. Instead ask you host to provide you with some sort of hit tracking through your log files. Most hosts will have a control panel you can log into to see how much traffic your website is getting and on what pages that traffic tends to go to. Plus if you simply want to know how many people visited the main page of your website, log files will show you that too. (more…)