Website creation is, in fact, the beginning of all work with the resource. It is necessary to constantly monitor its functioning, content and, of course, attendance. What's the point of a website that other people don't visit? Not with anything. Special counters will help you track traffic to the site and track the degree of progress, the installation instructions for which you can find below.
Instructions
Step 1
Decide on the service whose counter to put on your site. There are a great variety of services today, both paid and free. Paid can be used for business websites. There is a fairly wide selection of free ones today: liveinternet.ru, Google Analytics, Yandex. Metrica, rambler, mail.ru, TopStat, HitCounter, MyCounter and others. Here you can run into a fairly common mistake: "covering up" the site with numerous counters. Why is it dangerous? When opening the page, the user may not wait for all the counters to load and close the page, as a result of which you receive incorrect statistics. However, the counters may differ from the reality by 5%, so it is worth installing two or three counters. But most often you can use one. Perhaps the most effective are liveinternet.ru and Google Analytics.
Step 2
Go through a simple registration on the service of your counter. Registrations for all services are similar to each other, differ in small nuances. And the implementation of this action will not cause difficulties, since each step is provided with clear instructions and signatures.
Step 3
Set the code of the counter or counters in the "header" of the site. Attention! You should not install counters in the "site footer", as they may not have time to load when the page is opened and fix the visitor.
Step 4
Install counters on every page of your site, not just the home page. Failure to do this will result in incorrect statistics. Also, for example, if you make sections of sites from different templates, while installing one counter, then you again get incorrect data. Installing the counter does not require a lot of effort, but it is worth keeping track of all the nuances mentioned above. If you follow these instructions, you will succeed.
