# Install on a static HTML site

> Paste one tag inside the head of every page, deploy, and watch the first visitor land on the Live globe.

Section: Installation guides  
Canonical page: https://statsy.co/docs/install/html  
Last updated: 2026-09-15

A hand-written site needs nothing but the tag. There is no plugin, no build step and no npm package.

## Where it goes

Open every page’s HTML and paste the tag inside `<head>`, just before `</head>`. If your pages share a header include or partial, paste it there once instead.

```html
<script defer data-website-id="ws_XXXXXXXX" data-domain="yourstartup.com" src="https://statsy.co/js/script.js"></script>
```

`data-website-id` is your site key from the install screen. `data-domain` is the domain you are measuring; links to other hosts are then recorded as the `outbound` goal.

## Confirm it works

Deploy, then open the site in a normal tab. The install screen turns green on the first pageview, and **Live** shows the visitor with their city and current page. Click through to a second page and watch the path change.

## Every page, or none

The usual problem with a static site is a page that was copied before the tag existed. Search your source for `statsy` and count the matches against the number of pages you ship. A page without the tag simply never reports, and shows up as a gap in the **Pages** report rather than as an error.

> **Watch out.** Never paste the tag twice on one page. Two tags mean two pageviews per visit, which doubles your [event count](https://statsy.co/docs/tracking-script/events-and-usage) as well as your numbers.

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