Move a website while keeping the same counter and history
A move to another host or domain does not require a new Stats4U counter. The counter number connects new measurements to the existing history. A reliable move preserves that number, the…
Where a counter fits on a Blogspot blog
Blogspot continues to host many personal and community blogs, often with strict structural limitations. The platform confines custom HTML to designated sections, transforming the placement…
Six generations of counter address, all still answered
The address we document for a counter is /c/<number>-<design>.png. On 30 August it was asked for 156 times. The address from 2006 — /index.php?action=pic&s4uid=… — was asked for 80,499…
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,…
Export Stats4U reports as CSV or JSON with the correct access and period
The CSV and JSON links on a statistics page download a report for further work. Start from an accessible statistics page, select the intended period and use its current download link. An…
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,…
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…
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…