The label check was measuring points, not pixels
A check written on 27 August reported 196 diagram labels as too wide for the picture they sit in. Working through them took a day. 103 of the 196 turned out to be an artefact of the check…
Counters that follow dark mode
A counter is an image on somebody else's page. When that page has a dark mode, the image does not know: it was drawn on the server, long before the visitor's system preference existed as a…
Which counter designs actually get drawn
This service offers 461 counter designs. On 25 August 2026 it drew 24,285 counter images, 22,985 of which named a design. Thirty-nine distinct designs appeared in that day's traffic.…
The header and footer now run full width
A small change you will see on every page here: the dark band at the top and the footer at the bottom now run the full width of the window. Until today they sat inside the same 1180-pixel…
Animated counters without JavaScript
A fair number of the counter designs here move. The number counts itself up, or the panel draws itself in, or something falls into place and settles. None of them use a single line of…
An invisible counter for your page
Not everybody wants a counter on their page. Plenty of people want the numbers and would rather not have a badge in the corner announcing them — a portfolio, a company site, a page where a…
Why we kept the 2006 counter designs
The rebuild came with an obvious temptation: throw out the counter graphics from 2006 and start clean. They are bitmaps. They are dated. Nobody would design them that way now. They stayed.…
Flag Counter Wizard
The new Flag Counter wizard system is at /flag-counter. There is a choice between cubic, horizontal and vertical flag counters, in three sizes. Flag types, font colours and the other…
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…
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,…
Wizard possibilities
The new wizard functions are worth a look. Border and text can be set separately for each element. Suggestions are welcome in the comments below. The wizard catalogue offers hundreds of…
New counter globes
There are now three different globe styles, each with its own settings. They are on the main page under "animated". The first globe also appears on the statistics page under live >…