Read referring domains without guessing missing traffic sources
The referring-domain report describes source information that reached Stats4U. It is not a complete list of every route to the website, and a row is not automatically a distinct person.…
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…
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,…
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…
What to do with website audience geography
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The who-is-online list, promised in 2012 and now live
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'…
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…
Why we kept the 2006 counter designs
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.…
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…