Your website's vital statistics do not have to remain a mystery to you if you install a good web page counter or Internet tracking system. While web page counters offer on-page display showing you the approximate number of visitors to your page, more advanced Internet tracking systems provide detailed website traffic statistics online as well as off-line. Which counter or tracking system is the best? It all depends on your needs. Below you will find a description of the different types of counters and trackers that are currently available.

The earliest web page counters were numerical display counters powered by cgi scripts. These counters are still available. Some web hosting companies have pre-installed counter scripts which enable any of their clients to install a counter by just adding a piece of code to their html pages. It is also possible to search online and find a cgi script that will generate a counter, however, successful installation of cgi scripts can be a headache if you are not a