What the AI may and may not write
At the top of a public statistics page here there can be two or three sentences describing what the counter did this month. They are written by a language model. The model invents nothing,…
One crawler made most of our bot traffic
Counters here keep robots in a column of their own. They are recorded, but they do not move the number on the badge unless the setting is switched on. That separation makes it easy to ask a…
How we detect a broken counter
A counter can break quietly. The site gets redesigned, the embed does not survive the move, and nothing announces it — the statistics simply stop, and the owner finds out months later, if…
Caching counter images in memory
Close to a fifth of the counter images this service draws no longer change anything. A mouse-tracking script from the previous generation reloads the image on every movement, and since…
The toplist now has a link in the navigation
This site has a toplist: the busiest public counters, plus per-country and per-language sub-lists. It is built, it is translated into eleven languages, it has an opt-out, and it has been…
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…
A 2015 script still reloads counters
The previous generation of this service shipped a mouse-tracking script. It loaded the counter image once, normally, and then loaded it again on every mouse movement — with coordinates in…
Which counter designs actually get drawn
This service offers 461 counter designs. On 25 August 2026 it drew 24,285 counter images, 22,985 of which named a design. Thirty-nine distinct designs appeared in that day's traffic.…
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,…