Would you like to see how many hits your website or webpage have? Yes! I also wonder to see aswell.

I have a demo directory where I upload my portfolio type work to showcase. Very recently uploaded a pricing table built for a Genesis Framework project.

Share on bookmarking sites, and I got 2067 hits. So, let’s get the ball rolling to see how I added visitor counter PHP script on my page.

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Add Visitor Counter to Website in PHP

We will need two files. One for the script and another for hits storage. Here is a screenshot of my directory. Sharing, so, you get the things quickly.

Step 1: Create a file named counter.php. Edit it with Notepad/Notepad ++

$handle = fopen("counter.txt", "r"); 
if(!$handle) { 
    echo "could not open the file"; 
} else { 
    $counter =(int )fread($handle,20);
        fclose($handle); 
        $counter++; 
        echo"Number of visitors to this page so far: ". $counter . "" ; 
    $handle = fopen("counter.txt", "w" ); 
    
    fwrite($handle,$counter);
    fclose ($handle); 
}

Save the file and upload it to the directory.

Step 2: Create another file named counter.txt. Upload this file to the directory. You can put any number in this file it will echo as a log where you want to show the page hits.

Step 3: You see the index.php file to that directory in the screenshot above that the folder where I am going to include the counter script. So we can see the “Number of visitors to that page.”

I wanted to add the visitor counter at the footer. So I wrote the below snippet under of all elements.

<div class="visitor-count"> <?php include "counter.php"; ?> </div>

Conclusion

We have reached the end. To give your page a decent hits open counter.txt file add value/number and save it. That’s all! If you face any restriction, don’t hesitate to add your comment below.

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