Check an unexpected counter total without guessing
A stalled total, a sudden increase or a difference from another analytics tool can have several causes. Work through the checks in order. Keep the existing counter number and private…
One counter for a website, with page reports where needed
A separate counter for every page is usually unnecessary. One counter in a shared template can collect website totals and page information. The page report and optional page groups answer…
A counter on a school or club page
A school or club website is typically maintained by a single volunteer alongside other duties. Complex analytics platforms demand continuous training, while a standard image counter…
A counter on a parish website
A visitor counter on a parish website provides a baseline of visibility. When a community portal publishes the schedule for an upcoming festival or a gallery of recent events, the question…
A bounce rate needs one bit, not a tracker
Until 28 August this site did not show a bounce rate, and the about page said that was deliberate: it would need a session followed across several page views, and that would need a consent…
Why we can't count returning visitors
There is no returning-visitor figure anywhere in Stats4U. It is not missing because nobody got round to it. It was built, run once against real data, and taken back out on 27 August 2026,…
The threshold a summary has to clear
The summary feature has been offered 2,061 counters. It has written 262 sentences. Every one of the remaining jobs ended with the same result, and it is not an error message even though it…
Not every table keeps thirty days
A statistics page here is not one table. It is twelve, one per question — countries, pages, browsers, hours, devices, operating systems, languages, regions, referrers, bots, screen…
What image-only counting and JavaScript each measure
Stats4U can count through a plain image or through its JavaScript integration. Those methods do not supply the same information. A counter can increase while the page report contains only a…
How we count clicks privately
A counter answers "how many came". The more useful question is usually "how many did something" — clicked the contact link, opened the download, went out to a social profile. This site has…
We stopped collecting screen sizes
This service used to record screen resolution. The browser script read window.screen and sent it along as res=1920x1080, and the statistics page had a panel for it. It does not any more.…
How the toplist works, and opting out
stats4u.net has ranked its busiest counters since the beginning — a 2012 post already talks about improving it. The current version lives at /top, and it works differently underneath than…