Visitor Count is a notification type that can display either a live count of visitors on your site or specific pages, or it can display a visitor count for a previous timeframe of your choosing. The dashboard starts counting visits and visitors as soon as the pixel is placed on the site.
Setting Up the Visitor Count Notification
To configure a Visitor Count notification, click the Create Notification button within your campaign.
Then follow these steps:
Give your notification a name.
Select Visitor Count from the Notification Type box.
Click Create.
On the Pages tab, you can select the pages you want the Visitor Count notification to collect visits from.
All Pages - Will add up all visitors from every page that the Evidence script is on.
Only Select Pages - Allows you to select specific pages to pull the number of visitors from.
Customize the look and feel of your notification by clicking on the Design tab. Click here to learn more about design options.
On the default notification itself, you can see the merge field for "[visitors]" and "[timeframe]".
[visitors] - The merge field that places the count of the visitors Evidence is collecting from the pages you select on the Pages tab.
[timeframe] - The time frame that gets merged in is based on what you have configured in the Settings tab.
The text in the timeframe field cannot be changed. In other words, whatever time frame you choose (live, hour, day, two weeks, etc), those words will be part of the notification. You will need to adjust the verbiage on the notification accordingly.
Finally, click on the Settings tab.
Here you can set the Visitor Count to only show based on a minimum number between 1 and 200, and you can set the time frame for capturing visits
Once you have configured these settings, toggle your new notification to Activate.
Make sure to go to the Launch button and click Save and Publish.
This notification type will start popping live on the site as soon as you activate it, as long as you have the minimum number of visits you chose under Settings.