What image-only counting and JavaScript each measure
Stats4U can count through a plain image or through its JavaScript integration. Those methods do not supply the same information. A counter can increase while the page report contains only a…
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.…
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,…
Two ways to miscount an access log
A week of changes here rested on counts taken from one day of the access log: a million lines, a hundred thousand of them ours. To find out whether any of it worked, the same counts have to…
What stats2.gif actually is
There is a file in this project's image folder called stats2.gif. It is 366 bytes, dated March 2018, and it appears in exactly zero lines of source code. On 23 August 2026 it was served…
Six finished features and the way back to them
On 23 August 2026 this site answered 101,461 requests. In all of them, the owner token — the ?t= that unlocks the settings box on a statistics page — appeared exactly zero times. Not…
Where the about page numbers come from
There are six numbers across the top of the about page now: people online right now, visitors yesterday, counters in use, countries in the last thirty days, designs to choose from, and the…
Page views, daily visitors and the counter total: which number means what?
A counter image, a daily visitor report and a period total can show different numbers without a fault. Before comparing them, check the metric, the time period and the counter number.…
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…