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Edge to edge
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…
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The claims we took down
The old about page had a feature list on it. Rebuilding that page meant reading the list properly for the first time in a while, and four things on it were no longer true. One of them had…
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The numbers on the about page are real
There are six numbers across the top of the about page now: people online right now, visitors yesterday, counters in use, countries in the last thirty days, designs to choose from, and the…
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Counters that move, without a line of 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…
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Putting a counter on a site with no server
Static hosting has quietly become the sensible way to put a small site on the internet. GitHub Pages, Codeberg Pages, Neocities, or a folder of files on any cheap host: no database, no…
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The counter you cannot see
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…
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Your counter on an HTTPS page
Your site is on HTTPS. Your visitors see a padlock. Then you paste in something from another site, and the padlock goes away — or the thing you pasted simply does not appear. That is mixed…
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Adding a Stats4U counter with Google Tag Manager
There is a guide to this on the blog from 2015. Its screenshots show a Tag Manager that no longer looks like that, and one of its seven steps — ticking document.write — is no longer needed…
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Reading your referrer list without fooling yourself
The referrer list is the part of your statistics that looks the most like insight and misleads the most reliably. It is a list of the places people came from. Reading it correctly takes…
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Take your data with you
There is a link on your statistics page marked CSV, and next to it one marked JSON. They hand you your numbers as a file. No account, no request form, no waiting for an email with a…
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Counter number one has been running since 2006
The first counter ever created on this site was created on 18 November 2006, at three minutes past eleven at night. It has the ID 1. It counted visitors today. It stands at 703,428, and it…
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The "Who is online" list, fourteen years late
On 25 August 2012, a post on this blog announced that the statistics fields had started refreshing by themselves, and finished with a sentence: "The planned feature, the 'Who is online'…
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The counter designs from 2006 outlasted the software
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.…
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What your counter was counting
Your counter has been counting robots. So has everybody's. Until this month nobody here could tell you how many, because nothing was measuring it — and a crawler that requests a counter…
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Counting without a cookie
A visitor counter has one awkward job: it has to tell two visits apart. If it cannot, then one person reloading a page ten times looks like ten people, and the number on your site is…
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Stats4U 3 is here
The site you are reading this 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…
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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…
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How to use geographical data to grow your website
Wie Sie geografische Daten nutzen können, um Ihre Website wachsen zu lassen.
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Why a lightweight PHP counter is better than heavy analytics tools
Warum ein leichter PHP-Zähler besser ist als schwere Analysetools.
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User's Tab shows now active / inactive and offline users
Stats4U is getting better and better. You can now see live, who is actualy viewing your page or who has only opened your page in a background-tab in the browser. That means you will see the…
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First Windows 10 Users coming in!
We are excited to announce that you can now see the new Windows 10 Users in real time in our stats. Microsoft launched Windows 10 on the 29th July 2015 and we are ready to collect users…
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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…
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Flag Counter Wizard
Under /flag-counter you can find our new Flag Counter wizard system. You can now choose between cubic, horizontal or vertical flag counters and choose three sizes. Customize your new Flag…
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New Flag Counters and site speed stats
Stats4U.net is expanding its features with brand new stylish flag counters for your websites! You can place them on all your websites to show from where your visitors come from. Beside…
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New iOS and Android Version charts and ToS change
Your personal statistics for your website can show you which iOS and Android versions are in use! Get more information about your mobile visitors with Stats4U!We have also modified our…
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New OSs, Browsers and stats
We now support Windows 8 and Internet Explorer 10 in our statistics, ready for you to check out how many users use the newest technologies. Beside this, we have a new category in the…
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Firefox Versions
Since there are many Firefox Versions coming we have a new Chart in the "LIVE Statistics" > "Browsers" section. You can check how many people use each Firefox version on your website for…
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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! See in real time what is…
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Stats4U World Maps and improvements
Stats4U officialy launches new Onmouseover World Maps for your statistic pages! Check out where your visitors come from on country and region level! We offer now regional maps of the USA,…
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Wizard possibilities
Check out the new wizard functions. You can set your own border and text for each element. If you have any suggestions just write a comment below! The wizard catalogue offers hundrets of…
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Toplist improvements
This site features its users so the Stats4U toplist is more usefull now. You can see our daily top 20 customers and their most viewed web page. Every user that puts a Stats4U Counter on a…
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New counter globes
You can now choose between three different globe styles and set them up for your needs. Just go to the main page > animated and check them out. You can find the first globe on your…
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New account management system
Stats4U has now a new system to handle more and more customers. Create accounts for your websites comfortably on our mainpage. You can even copy the HTML Code for a counter without signing…