Including statistics of visits to your site through placement in pages of a hit counter can give you powerful analytical tools for managing traffic to your web resource. Or it may just become a harmonious addition to the website design - it all depends on your needs and the capabilities of the service provider you choose.
Instructions
Step 1
The process of placing a counter on the site should start with the selection of a statistics service that meets your needs. There are many of them on the network, but some are more popular due to their functionality and wide range of services. You can only evaluate how one or another of them is right for you by gaining experience in using it. Changing your meter afterwards will not be difficult, so there is no point in looking for the most ideal one for a long time and carefully. You can start with one of the most popular counting services in the Russian-speaking sector of the Internet - the LiveInternet.ru portal.
Step 2
Having made the choice of the statistics service, register on its website. Although, if for some reason the registration does not suit you, you can pick up a counter that does not require this - for example, warlog.ru. Of course, such a choice will not give you any statistics, except for the numbers visible on the pages with the counter, but you can skip everything described below in this step. Registration forms for the LiveInternet.ru statistics service are located at liveinternet.ru/add. specify the main URL of your site in the "Address" field. In addition, if there are additional subdomains or aliases of the main domain (that is, other domains leading to the same website), then you can specify them in the "Synonyms" field. After registration, the name of your resource that you specify in the "Name" field. In the "Email" field, enter the address of your mailbox, and in the fields for entering the password, type and confirm the password - the data from these fields will be used for authorization when entering the statistics service., characterizing the focus and content of your site, put in the field "Keywords". The rating will use them to search through a list of all sites registered here. You have the choice of making your site's statistics available for viewing or private. To do this, you need to select the appropriate option in the "Statistics" field. You may not participate in the overall rating if you are only interested in the statistics of visits. In this case, select the "do not participate" item in the list of the "Participate in ratings" selector. If you want to use the counter as a tool to increase traffic, then indicate in this list the section of the rating that best matches the topic of the site. When everything is filled in - click the "Next" button and you will be given the opportunity to check the information entered. After making sure that there are no errors, confirm sending the registration data to the server. After that, a verification link will be sent to the address you specified - you should click on it to confirm your registration. After completing registration, you will have access to the closed area of your statistics. There you can select the code of the counter option that suits you the most.
Step 3
The counter code obtained in the previous step should be inserted into the pages of your site. How to do it technically depends on which content management system you are using. In any case, you need to open in the page editor the one that is selected to insert the counter. If you do without a control system, download the page file through the hosting provider's file manager and open it in a text editor, then find the place in the HTML code to place the counter and paste its code there. In the case of using the page editor of the control system, this must be done by switching it to the HTML code editing mode. Then save the changes and, if you used a text editor, then upload the page to the server through the same file manager.
