Have you ever wondered how many visitors are making it to your blog? Install a free traffic counter and you can be reading the stats in minutes.
Best of all, it is simple to install a counter on your blog with these easy steps.
Using your favorite search engine, type in the words "website hit counter" or "web traffic counter".
The results will bring up a large selection of providers offering a website hit counter for your blog or site.
Many providers offer a big selection ofdifferent styles of traffic counters.
Find a site that best suits your needs.

• Check out the pages of counters available for you to use and choose one.
  It can be hard to choose with so many great styles.
  
• Tick the radial button for the counter you want and wait for the next page to load.
  
• Now decide if you want to count "all hits" or "unique visits only".
  Anytime time someone visits any area of your site is consider a "hit".
  And a "visit" is a series of hits made from the same user during a period of time.
  
• Complete the remainder information requested and hit submit.
  
• Copy the html code given
• Now it's time to install the counter on your blog

Add Counter to a Blogger Blog

• Login to your Blogger account and proceed to the Design Tab, Page Elements
• Click 'add a gadget, basics" and click "HTML/Javascript"
• Paste the HTML counter code and hit "save"
• Click on your home page and the counter will appear on your home page

Add Counter to a WordPress Blog (for free and self-hosted blogs)

• Login to your WordPress account and proceed to your WP Dashboard
• On the left hand side of the dashboard, go to "Appearance" tab, expand and select "Widgets"
• From the available widgets list, select the "Text" widget and move it to the sidebar box
• The 'text' box will expand.
  There is no need to enter a title.
  Just paste your HTML counter code into the large box.
  Select the "save" button and then "close"
• Click on your home page and the counter will appear on your home page