April 9, 2009
Website Builder Tutorials: How to add a Sitecounter to your Website
One of the most interesting - and important - bits of information to find out about your website is how many visits it receives. Within the WebEden website making system there is a really simple tool called Sitecounter that lets you do this. Sitecounter also displays the number of visits a website has recieved to all those people visiting it. You can add Sitecounter to your website in just a few moments. Follow the instructions below:
Have a go adding a Sitecounter and leave us a comment
Hi Ken - does the sitecounter record every visitor to your website or every page that someone visits in your website?
You can reset your sitecounter to zero, or start it counting from another number, yes? That might be useful if you are running a particular campaign and want to see whether site visitors increase during your campaign? Reset to zero and let it count up, sticking it somewhere unobtrusive :-)
Or, you could make your site look MEGA popular and start your counting at a higher number?
Of course, if all your SEOs are in place, you won’t need to do that, your visitor numbers will be high anyway *grin*.
AX
Comment by Alison Cross — April 9, 2009 @ 3:41 pm
Hi Alison,
It records every visit, rather than every visitor.
So if you visit 10 pages on 1 visit then it just records 1 visit.
And if you look at just 1 page, go to a different site, and then come back again, then that counts as another visit. Or you could just refresh and that counts as another visit too.
Yep, if you want to reset then go to Admin, then Statistics, and then at the bottom you can choose ‘reset total visitors’.
And if you want to make the site look popular then spend all night hitting refresh!!!
At the end of the day this is just a very basic site counter. If you’re really into advanced stats and web analytics then you need to sign up for and add in Google Analytics. You’ll be able to see your site visitors over any timescale, where people are coming from, what pages they look at, their shoe size… We’re going to be doing a tutorial on that… soon!
Ken
Comment by admin — April 9, 2009 @ 3:53 pm
Looking forward to that tutorial *thumbs up*!
As a non-techie, I wander around the Analytics dashboard, pushing buttons and watching interesting looking graphs appear, but all the really nifty, useful stuff remains as much a mystery to me as morris dancing……
AX
Comment by Alison Cross — April 9, 2009 @ 4:13 pm
And about as useful as morris dancing too!
Ken
Comment by admin — April 14, 2009 @ 2:02 pm
Hi ken,
Have a site counter on my website but, shows 300 less visitors than my goole Adsense account? How accurate is it.
Greenboy
Comment by David Greenhled — April 15, 2009 @ 7:16 pm
Hi Greenboy!
Both the Sitecounter and Google Adsense are pretty accurate, but they are counting different things.
Google AdSense will count the number of impressions a page receives. Sitecounter will count the number of visits the whole website recieves.
For example, lets say I go to your website and I arrive on the homepage and then click on the ‘Wizard’ page and then go back to the homepage. (Which I just did. Nice site!).
The Sitecounter will count that as 1 visit, which is true since I visited the site once. And AdSense will count that as three impressions because I downloaded a page 3 times: the homepage (twice) and the Wizard page (once). So the AdSense impression count will always be a higher number than the site counter.
Hope that makes sense, please let me know if not!
Ken
Comment by admin — April 16, 2009 @ 2:13 pm
Do you have a easy way of adding ‘Fotopic’ to one’s web site?? One that does not take for ever to download?!
Comment by Bill Reynolds — June 25, 2009 @ 7:23 am
Hi Bill,
Are you after a photo gallery on your site, or is it the Fotopic gallery that you specifically want on your site?
We have a photo gallery ourselves - with lots of different options for how to display your photos, some of them quite cool.
As for putting a Fotopic gallery on there: Do they allow you to publish content that they host onto other websites, in the same way that YouTube do? If so, yes you can probably do it, but might need to make use of the HTML widget:
http://www.webeden.co.uk/blog/product-news/how-to-use-html-on-your-webeden-website/
If you need any other help, or can clarify what you’re after, please let me know!
Ken
Comment by admin — June 25, 2009 @ 12:51 pm
Hi Ken,
I want to install google analytics.. but have no idea how to install the tracker code… any help would be appreciated… just off morris dancing!
Thanks
Andy
Comment by Andy — August 13, 2009 @ 11:26 am
Hi Andy,
Have a watch of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiZBnK4pOBw
Enjoy the dancing!
Ken
Comment by admin — August 13, 2009 @ 11:57 am
Cheers Ken!
As easy as that eh lol thx for your help
Andy.
Comment by Andy — August 13, 2009 @ 12:10 pm
Hi Ken,
is it possible to have a counter for when members are logged into the site and visitors
(.i.e. we currently have 3 members signed in and 5 guests),
so everybody can see who is online.
phil.
Comment by phil — November 19, 2009 @ 7:05 pm
Hi Phil,
Afraid we don’t have anything like that, no.
Just checked your site by the way. Oh, MGs. A trip down memory lane. I had a ‘78 B - couldn’t afford the chrome bumper version!
Ken
Comment by admin — November 20, 2009 @ 12:41 pm