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,…
A counter for static sites
Static hosting has quietly become the sensible way to put a small site on the internet. GitHub Pages, Codeberg Pages, Neocities, or a folder of files on any cheap host: no database, no…
What to do with website audience geography
మీ వెబ్సైట్ ఎదుగుదలకు భౌగోళిక డేటాను ఎలా ఉపయోగించాలి.
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…
A counter or an analytics suite?
భారీ అనలిటిక్స్ సాధనాల కంటే తేలికైన PHP కౌంటర్ ఎందుకు మెరుగైనది.
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…
What happened between 2015 and 2026
Before this week, the most recent post on this blog was dated September 2015. That is an eleven-year hole in the middle of it, and it seemed better to explain the hole than to quietly…
Stats4U 3 is here
The site this post sits on was rebuilt this month — not restyled, rebuilt, starting at the counting path. There is a separate post about the eleven quiet years that led up to it. This one…
User's Tab shows now active / inactive and offline users
Stats4U is getting better and better. It is now visible live who is actually viewing a page and who has only opened it in a background tab of the browser. That means the list shows the…