Best way to count the number a page has been viewed?

Hello everyone, I would like to show the count a webpage has been viewed to the users. How can that be done? First approach came to my mind is to create a table in the database and increase the hit every time a page is viewed like suggested in this link http://forums.asp.net/t/1344167.aspx. But I believe there must be better way to achieve that. Any suggestion?
I found some suggestion by using google analytics. I think it is good for administrator to keep track of each page. But not sure if it is possible to grab the number of views from google analitics and display it to the end users. Is it possible?

Thanks.