"Hit counter" for my Website

[babyboomer]

I'm looking for a simple hit counter that I can plug into and display on my website. Someone suggested a solution from Google, but that's really more than I'm looking for. I just need something that will display the number of visits to my site. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[Ingolme]

The problem is that you have to clearly define what you mean by a "hit".

• Do visits to two different pages add to the same counter?
• Does the same person refreshing the page 5 times count as 5 hits?
• Should visits from search engine crawlers count as hits?

[babyboomer]

1 hour ago, Ingolme said:

The problem is that you have to clearly define what you mean by a "hit".

• Do visits to two different pages add to the same counter?
• Does the same person refreshing the page 5 times count as 5 hits?
• Should visits from search engine crawlers count as hits?

None of the above constitute my definition of a "hit." perhaps the word "visit" would be more appropriate. If I give someone a tour of every room in my home, that still constitutes a single visit. I guess that's what I'm looking for. Perhaps a simple solution would not be sufficient to meet my requirements.

Edited October 7, 2018 by babyboomer
Clarification

[Ingolme]

You can't create a hit counter if you don't know what a hit is. You have to define this first. Once you have a definition, you can build something based on it.

[justsomeguy]

You'll also need to figure out how you want to distinguish what is a single visitor.

[babyboomer]

So, I found this site on the Internet. It's just one among many that offer the same service. I plugged the code into my HTML document, and it seemed to behave as advertised...

However, I'm wondering about the wisdom of  embedding a link to an unsecured URL.

[justsomeguy]

If they don't offer SSL, and the rest of your site is secure, then browsers will show a warning.  Some browsers may also block that as a tracker.