Counting Visitors
At first I want to say that a hit counter often may be very unnecissary for most of you. It's because it sums up the number of all times the website was visited. It does not count the number of people. In practise this means that the vistor number increases every time you open your blog after editing - this way, there may be a huge number appearing on screen even if nobody than the admin visited the page. Moreover, you are able to set a starting number. So please don't trust any hit counters on other webistes, they mostly don't show what you expect.
If you still want to add a hit counter to your blog, this is the best one - it's the same one I'm using in top of my own one, even if I think of removing it:
http://freehostedscripts.net/texthitcounter/
There is a very good description how to install it. You can consider step 5 from the beginning, because lifting the counter field a little bit up looks much better.
