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…
Why a fifth of the page list says N/A
The page list on a statistics page names which pages the visits landed on. On 26 August 2026 that table held 101,485 rows, and 20,055 of them — 19.8 % — have the page recorded as N/A. That…
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…
Where the about page numbers come from
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…
The number on the badge is not visitors
A recurring question here is why the number printed on the counter image does not match the number in the statistics. Both are correct. They are answers to different questions, and the…
How to read your referrer list
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…
Export your data as CSV or JSON
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…