How to find out how many people visit your site.

How do you tell how many?

[J_Evans]

If you are not signed up for adsense or another program how do you tell how many visitors or page views that you have had. I know that you can have counters but is there another way? Does you hosting company have a way to tell? Thanks for the help with a dumb question. Jamie

[mack]

Usually your hosting company will provide you with access to your stats. Many will provide a program such as Webalizer or Awstats that allows you to visually see your traffic information.

There are also companies who simply provide raw log files. If this is the case you will need to use your own software to analyse the data held within them.

I think you should email your hosting company to find out just what they offer. They should be able to show you where to find your stats and how to use them

Mack.

[Matt Probert]

how do you tell how many visitors or page views that you have had.

You can not. Period.

Might I suggest,

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Which describes why you can not tell.

What you can find out, from the "log files" (ask your host) is how many requests the web server has received, but this is not the visitors and page views the site has had.

Matt

[J_Evans]

If you can't tell, where do people come up with these figures and how do you sell advertising if you cna't prove some numbers? Thankd you.

[Essex_boy]

What I think that poster means is that you cant not tell exactly how many of anything happens at your site its an educated guess taken from your logs.

I use a my hosts stats as well as a service that updates in real time, they place a cookie on the hard drive of a visitor and then watches what they do.

Nothing you use will be 100% precise.