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,…
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…
Visitor statistics without a cookie banner
Most analytics need a consent banner because most analytics store something on the visitor's device: a cookie, an entry in local storage, an identifier that survives until tomorrow. That…
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…
New privacy policy, terms and DPA
As of 19 August 2026, stats4u.net has three legal documents where it used to have one: a rewritten privacy policy, a terms of service, and — new — a data processing agreement (DPA) under…
Why the exclusion list is not hashed
Building a site means opening it twenty times a day. On a counter with forty visitors a month, half the statistics are the author. So there is a setting: do not count visits from my own…
Exporting the data as CSV or JSON
There is a link on the statistics page marked CSV, and next to it one marked JSON. Both hand the numbers over as a file. No account, no request form, no waiting for an email with a download…
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…
A counter or an analytics suite?
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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…