Total Number of Stories on the website

I have this website ilov开发者_如何学Goeforwards.com created using drupal.

I would like to have a block on the side that says total Number of forwards: n

the pages are created as stories.

i tried views. no luck. Pls help

-Vivek

You could use the views_groupby module to do this. It's a good module for counting up pretty much anything that you can pull together with a view.

Here's the documentation.