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If you have a Web page, sooner or later, you're going to want a counter for it---or at least a means of determining how many visitors your page is getting.
Across the Web, there are many free counter and Web site tracking services available. This range from simple counters that give you only the number of hits you're getting to sophisticated services that give you extensive data about your visitors (where they're from, what page they were referred by, what time they visited, etc.) Please send us E-mail if you're aware of any such free services that we haven't listed below. |
 SuperStats - Excellent free Web page statistics service that serves up all the information about your visitors you could ask for. It allows you to see how many people have visited your site; total & unique visits; browser types; visiting domains; referral listings (how visitors found your site); what time of day they visited; traffic patterns and much more. SuperStats gives you five full days' worth of stats, and you may track as many pages as you wish. Setup is easy: just copy two lines of HTML to your page and you're all set.
- Extreme Tracking - This wonderful free service from the Netherlands has every stat you could ask for, intelligently broken down by category. This JavaScript-enhanced tracker offers you loads of information. You get totals by Web site, search engine, E-mail, Usenet, etc. and even can find out what keywords your visitors used to locate you! See a sample of their stats here. On top of everything else, Extreme Tracking is one of the fastest-loading trackers around. This is the best service of its kind on the Web.
- Site Meter - Here's a new, free Web counter &
tracker service that offers several interesting features. Site Meter displays dynamic 3D graphs
and reports on your traffic. It offers several different counter styles and your counter can
be customized by text color, background color, size, font, etc.
 WebStat - Here's a new free Web tracking service that offers loads of information about your visitors. You get stats broken down by visits per day, week, month, year, operating system, browser and more, all updated in real time. You also get helpful referral information. WebStat is speedy and reliable.
- Site Tracker - If you're looking to build traffic on your site, you really can't have enough details about your visitors. And Site Tracker delivers detailed information in spades. Using it, you'll be able to determine a huge amount of data on your visitors: where they came from, what their screen resolution, browser and OS is and even how long they spent browsing your site. You also get valuable information about your site as well (page loading times, etc.) Site Tracker keeps your stats handy for seven days. It's easy to set up, too. Just cut & paste a snippet of code and you're ready.
 WebSideStory- - This constantly improving free Java-based tracking service has recently undergone a major upgrade. WebSideStory now offers much more data about your visitors, including valuable referral information (when your visitors arrived, where they came from, etc.). WebSideStory is also useful to bringing visitors to your site, as well. Sites listed with them are categorically ranked by traffic. This feature can mean extra hits for you, as other surfers who browse the lists will click in from time to time. WebSideStory now offers a banner program. If you display one of their banners, they'll place your own banner into their rotation of ads.
- HitSTAT - This speedy new European free page tracking service offers loads of stats about your site's visitors. You get information about the last visitor and stats sorted by hour, day, week and month. They also provide info on your visitors by domain and by browser used.
To use the free service, you're required to display their banner. Offered in English, German and Italian.
- Free Counters - This site offers a number of different counter styles to choose from. Just select the design you want and fill out the short form to get one for your page.
- Better Counter - This Java-based service counts all your site's pages (a maximum of 20 using the free version)
Features include complete hits analysis within a customizable page structure. You get details like internal & external references. Thus, you can find out which links, search engines or banners give you the most hits. Free for up to 20 pages and 500 hits/day.
- Gumball Web site Tracker - An excellent, unique British service that offers secure Web page tracking. Using the information that Gumball provides about your visitors, you can find the answers you need to successfully promote your Web site.
- ShowStat Statistics - This is a free Web site tracking service that offers graphical stats for your site (in the form of various bar graphs). Showstat provides plenty of information, including a list of the last 25 links that sent traffic your way. There's also information about your last 10 visitors. See sample stats here. This free service is for sites that get less than 10,000 hits/day. Visitors have reported lately that ShowStat can be slow to load at times.
- NedStat - Solid free tracker with all kinds of detailed stats, including what page referred your visitors to you---a essential feature that's very rare among free tracking services. NedStat is now also offering two-week trial periods for its more advanced and detailed NedStat Pro. NedStat also offers a version in Dutch. Visitors have reported having difficulties in accessing their stats lately.
- TheCounter.com - This is a fast, reliable free page counter that offers loads of information about your site's visitors (such as domain, browser, OS, hourly weekday & monthly stats, resolution, color depth and referring page). You can choose from four different counter styles and specify whether the counter appears in "traditional" style or invisible. Best of all, they require no ads to be displayed on your page.
- CyberStats: a stats tracking service - CyberStats is easy to set up and offers loads of information about your visitors. Just cut and paste their coding onto your site and you're all set. The information includes hits for the past 7 days, a yearly total, detailed monthly stats, host name stats, search engine stats and more. They also offer a commercial version (for $16) that eliminates the banner that you display with the free version.
- StarCounter - This is an easy-to-set-up Web page counter. Just sign up and then insert the code that is generated for you. StarCounter offers many eye-catching digit styles to choose from. We've had a few complaints that their counters don't always work.
- Web Right Services Counter - This counter service offers almost 600 digit styles. Just sign up with them and they'll send you the necessary coding for your page. The only catch is that you also must display a 176X40 pixels banner, alongside the counter.
- Direct Hit Counter - This is a site counter that gives you daily, weekly and monthly traffic counts and displays them on a constantly-updated Web page. View sample stats here. By participating in this service, you also get your site listed in their "Best of the Web" directory, which can lead to more traffic for you. Each month, they award one of their members 10,000 free banner ads.
- FastCounter - Link Exchange, the banner service, has gotten into the counter business, as well. This service is easy to set up and offers you stats via E-mail. Several counter styles are available. No porn or "inappropriate" sites allowed.
- Ultimate Counter - This is an easy-to-set up counter that offers a random font, so your visitors will see a different style every time they
visit your site. This service also offers a clock that you may place on your page and set to your own time zone.
You must display a banner in order to use the free version of this service.
- MnetWeb Free Page Counters - We've been hearing good things from our visitors about this page counter that you can personalize and customize to your liking. This service offers over 40 options to customize your counter. All images have transparent backgrounds to coordinate with your page background easier. Many of the images are animated (and pretty cool looking!).
- ICDirect.com - This is a fast, free easy-to-set-up counter that tracks your daily, weekly and monthly hits.
Using this counter also gets you listed in their directory, which can lead to more traffic
for you. Click here for an example of their stats report..
- Siteflow Free Counters - Free counter site that offers several options, such as ignoring your own hits to your site, as well as making your counter invisible. Setting up the counter is a straightforward two-part process. The free service is available only to sites that get no more than 500 hits a day. They also limit you to one counter per site. Not recommended. We've had complaints from visitors that their counter doesn't always load and their site isn't always accessible.
- IPStat - This tracking service disappeared for a while, but they're back now. They provide plenty of stats including "Hits for the last 21 days," "Hit per Country," "Hits per Hour," "Total Hits per Week Day," "Hits per Browser," and more. Free for personal pages.
- WatchWise - This service isn't free, but they offer a 7-day no obligation trial offer. WatchWise builds and maintains an historical utilization and performance database for your Web site, and generates a comprehensive set of management and technical reports and graphs.
- Free Web Page Hit Counter - A free counter that allows you to count the hits on all your
pages, view counts on all pages at the same
time & view counts without viewing the page and
incrementing the count. Easy to set up: just cut & paste some HTML and make minor modifications and you're all set. Note: you can't use this on an X-rated site, use this service instead.
- WebTracker - This major free service offers a number of goodies. You get data on what browser your visitors are using, the operating system they're running, and you can tell if they're repeat visitors. You can also find out what days of the week are hot and find out what time of the day visitors come to your site. WebTracker data is updated in real-time. There is never the need to wait for a log file update; view your stats whenever you want to. Note: WebTracker has reported problems with their service with the Internet Explorer browser, version 4.
- Web Pal Counter - WebPal generates hourly, daily and monthly reports. Each report contains accesses, browsers and hosts statistics. Not free, but a trial period available.
- Crazy Counter - A joke page counter, available in both Java and animated GIF versions.
- The Museum of Counter Art - Tired of the same lame-looking counter on your page? Check out this site which has 500 sets of free counter artwork for anyone to use. The counter sets can be used with most any counter CGI scripts, across all platforms. Counter art is displayed in the various exhibit rooms of the museum based on its particular look or style.
- Site-Stats - Here's the deal: you give them space for a billboard; they provide you with counter stats.
- LBInet free counter service - A good basic counter. Just go to the site, fill out a form and they'll E-mail the
HTML you need to put on your page. They claim a 99.98 percent reliability rate. No X-rated sites allowed.
- Dyno Counter - Just cut & paste some code and Viola! you've got a counter. You can have as many counters as you want as long
as the content on your site is free.
- JCount - JCount is a set of animated web page access counters that are available as free access counters. Although they are Java-based, they include a backup counter for those users who do not have Java support. You can choose from a selection of different digit types or change the number displayed at any time you choose by using a simple configuration screen. Paid subscription service available, too.
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