Counter numbers are now checked against both tables
Every counter here has a number. It appears in the embed code, in the statistics address, and on however many pages the owner put it. Numbers are handed out by picking a random one between…
Putting a counter in a chomikuj profile
chomikuj.pl is a Polish file-sharing community. Every account has a description field, and a great many people put a visit counter in it. When we finally counted where the counters of this…
Which platforms our counters live on
The last step of adding a counter here has a section called "Where does it go?" — a short paragraph for each platform, explaining where the code belongs. WordPress, WordPress.com, Blogger,…
Six finished features and the way back to them
On 23 August 2026 this site answered 101,461 requests. In all of them, the owner token — the ?t= that unlocks the settings box on a statistics page — appeared exactly zero times. Not…
Visitor statistics without a cookie banner
Most analytics need a consent banner because most analytics store something on the visitor's device: a cookie, an entry in local storage, an identifier that survives until tomorrow. That…
Why the exclusion list is not hashed
Building a site means opening it twenty times a day. On a counter with forty visitors a month, half the statistics are the author. So there is a setting: do not count visits from my own…
A page address longer than its column
On 9 August 2026, twenty counter images failed to render. Not drew wrong, not drew slowly — the visitor got nothing at all where a counter should have been. The cause was a page address…
Page views, daily visitors and the counter total: which number means what?
A counter image, a daily visitor report and a period total can show different numbers without a fault. Before comparing them, check the metric, the time period and the counter number.…
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 visitor counter for any website
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…
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…
A counter on an HTTPS page
A site is on HTTPS. Visitors see a padlock. Then something from another site gets pasted in, and the padlock goes away — or the pasted thing simply does not appear. That is mixed content,…