What happened between 2015 and 2026
Before this week, the most recent post on this blog was dated September 2015. That is an eleven-year hole in the middle of it, and it seemed better to explain the hole than to quietly…
Stats4U 3 is here
The site this post sits on was rebuilt this month — not restyled, rebuilt, starting at the counting path. There is a separate post about the eleven quiet years that led up to it. This one…
User's Tab shows now active / inactive and offline users
Stats4U is getting better and better. It is now visible live who is actually viewing a page and who has only opened it in a background tab of the browser. That means the list shows the…
First Windows 10 Users coming in!
Windows 10 users now appear in the statistics in real time. Microsoft launched Windows 10 on 29 July 2015, and the detection is ready for the visitors who have already switched to the new…
7 Steps to Implement Stats4U into the Google Tag Manager
Update, August 2026: the Tag Manager interface in the screenshots below no longer exists, and step 5 — picking document.write — is no longer needed. There is a current version of this…
Flag Counter Wizard
The new Flag Counter wizard system is at /flags. There is a choice between cubic, horizontal and vertical flag counters, in three sizes. Flag types, font colours and the other settings can…
New Flag Counters and site speed stats
Stats4U.net is expanding its features with brand new stylish flag counters for websites. They can be placed on any site to show where its visitors come from. Alongside them there is now a…
New iOS and Android Version charts and ToS change
The statistics for a website can now show which iOS and Android versions are in use, which adds detail about mobile visitors.The Terms of Service page has also been modified to comply with…
New OSs, Browsers and stats
Windows 8 and Internet Explorer 10 are now supported in the statistics, so the share of the newest technologies is visible. There is also a new category in the statistics section: the USERS…
Firefox Versions
Since there are many Firefox versions coming, there is a new chart in the "LIVE Statistics" > "Browsers" section. It shows, for each day of the year, how many people used each Firefox…
New live stats!
The fields "Today, Yesterday, Average: New visitors, Tod. Bounce, Forecast, Total, Bounce rate, Visit time, Sites/Visits and Toplist Rank" are now live reloading, so what happens on a…
Stats4U World Maps and improvements
Stats4U officially launches new onmouseover world maps for statistics pages. They show where visitors come from, at country and region level. There are regional maps of the USA, Russia,…