Using Google Analytics

Google offers a service that allows you to do hit counts and various kinds of statistics on your website.

General information is found at http://www.google.com/analytics/

The general system is pretty simple. You set up an account on Google, copy a snippet of html that you put in your page, and every time someone clicks on the page, a message is sent to Google, which then compiles statistics for you.

Google would really like you to buy advertising on their website, which is the reason they make these statistics available, but using their advertising is not required for the Analytics to work.

I will add an example.

Create an account

Create a profiel

Define a default page for each profile, and set other profile options for this site

Add the tracking code to your website

View the results on your Googe Analytics account.