What’s the best way to track hits on my site, I don’t want anything on show on the website itself?
I’ve been looking at sites where you make an account and they give you a script but that puts an image on your site and I don’t want that. I just want a scipt with no images or anything?
just use what ever is automatically given and set its style to hidden. that way it wont show, but you can still call it if you like
Make the home page a php page. At the top of the page, connect to the database. Select the hit counter field from the table you put it in. Increment the value. Update the record.
When you want to see the hit count, just look at the value in the field.
(You can use a text file with just the hit number too.)
Register to this site, they offer a free stat counter but it is invisible. So only you can see how many people are visiting your site.
http://www.statcounter.com/
Where ever you are hosting your website should store log files.
These can be uploaded to a program that will analyse them, and tell you how may people have visted your site, which page they left it from, sometimes where they came from..