Number of website hits

Two popular methods of tracking user visits is via Google Analytics, and/or the Jetpack plugin’s “Stats” module. The Jetpack plugin is very easy to setup and provides you the analytics right in your WordPress dashboard. If you don’t already use the Jetpack plugin and want to learn more, please review: https://jetpack.me/support/wordpress-com-stats/

Regarding Google Analytics, that is a much more complex to setup system offered by Google. For more information, please review: https://www.google.com/analytics/