Quick knitting question: counting cast-on stitches

[afuna]

So I'm doing the long tail cast on, as per knittinghelp.com. The very first stitch gives me two loops. Do I count that as one stitch, or two?

Google leads me to articles telling me not to count the slipknot, but since this isn't a slipknot, and I'm not sure what a slipknot looks like, I kinda really don't know.


And in other news, I finally finished my first thingy! It's a pastel candy-colored rectangular cloth (I ran out of yarn to make it squarer), complete from cast-on to bind-off, and I have just spent the past several minutes tugging at it with happy satisfaction :)