# Tracking the number of visitors for a notebook

**URL:** <https://talk.observablehq.com/t/tracking-the-number-of-visitors-for-a-notebook/4110>\
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**Created:** [November 6, 2020, 10:14pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/tracking-the-number-of-visitors-for-a-notebook/4110 "2020-11-06T22:14:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![haoshuai](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.observablehq.com/haoshuai/32/3757_2.png) [@haoshuai](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/haoshuai)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 10:14pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/tracking-the-number-of-visitors-for-a-notebook/4110/1 "2020-11-06T22:14:27Z")

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I know we can use Google Analytics to track the number of visitors of a notebook:

> **[Google Analytics In Observable](https://observablehq.com/@yhyddr/google-analytics?collection=@yhyddr%2Fobservable-usage)**
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> Google Analytics In Observable Google Analytics JS Note It's now only can record how many people are on your page which import this one. How to Use First Get your UA code find UA use import {googleAnalytics} from '@yhyddr/google-analytics' and call...

  
But are there any other tools that can do the work?

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**Author:** ![mootari](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.observablehq.com/mootari/32/581_2.png) [@mootari](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/mootari)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 12:16pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/tracking-the-number-of-visitors-for-a-notebook/4110/2 "2020-11-07T12:16:54Z")

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Depends on what “the work” entails. There’s a whole ocean of competing analytics tools available on the web. The difficult part of even basic visitor tracking is to tell human visitors apart from bot requests (search engines, vulnerability scanners) and detect unique visitors.

Perhaps you can elaborate _why_ you are looking for other tools?