Adding a Hitcounter to your iWeb Site

This tutorial will show you how to add an invisible Statcounter to your iWeb site! Yeah thats right! invisible Statcounter. For visible ones you can just use the HTML snippet box that iWeb provides!

Hey, although it says “Statcounter” right at the top – you can use this tutorial for any other hitcounter, like Google Analytics or Crazy Egg!

Also note that this tutorial is binary! This means that the whole tutorial will work for both iWeb 1.X and iWeb 2.X (iLife ‘08).

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So let’s get started with the Tutorial:

  1. First thing is to download iTweak which is a free application built by myself and James which will make this tutorial a hugely easier! So thank me for saving your time! :-D
  2. Sign up for Statcounter or with whatever hitcounter service you want (i.e Google Analytics). In any case, set up a project with them and follow their steps until you get a code. That is where you stop!
  3. Open iWeb Expander and navigate to the “Hitcounters” tab and tick the option to “Integrate invisible Hitcounter.” Then copy the code you got in step 2, and paste it into the text-box. You can post several counters in the box as well.

    4. iTweak - Hitcounter Tab

  4. Then hit the “Choose Published Site” button and select your Site. If you publish to a folder, then you should know where your site is. On the other hand, if you publish to .Mac (MobileMe), you might not know. It is on the iDisk, in the “Web” folder, then in the “Sites” folder and then select the folder named after your site.
  5. Now, the hardest thing … click the “Create” button.
  6. That’s it! Be sure to do this everytime you publish your site because iWeb overwrites the files everytime it publishes!
    If you run into any problems, then please contact me via email and do NOT use the comments form below.

Additional Note

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