Install Stats4U on a static website without exposing private access
A static website can load a Stats4U counter without running PHP or maintaining a visitor database on its own host. The browser loads the integration from Stats4U and the counting happens…
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…
Counters have been counting robots
Counters here have been counting robots. All of them, without exception. Until this month nobody here could say how many, because nothing was measuring it — and a crawler that requests a…
A counter or an analytics suite?
The honest answer to the question in the title is: it depends what the statistics are being asked to tell. A visitor counter and a full analytics suite are not two grades of the same tool.…
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 the site is…
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…
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 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 >…
New account management system
Stats4U has a new system for handling a growing number of customers. Accounts for websites are created on the main page, and the HTML code for a counter can be copied without signing up.…