Free Web Counters and Trackers

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. These 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.)

• 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.
  


• 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.
  


• NedStat - Outstanding free counter 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.
  


• SuperStats - Nice stats service that allows you to see how many people have visited your Web page, how they found your site, what time of day they visited, and more. In return, they display a banner on your page that is 400 by 40 pixels. It's easy to set up; just cut & paste 2 lines of HTML to your page.
  


• 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.
  


• Aaddzz free Access Counters and Trackers - Service that provides counters with hundreds of cool font styles. This service's counters and trackers are easy to set up. Aaddzz also provides free reports about accesses and visitors to pages. You may use Aaddzz to add up to five counters and five trackers to your Web pages.
  


• Freestats - Nice stats program that offers lots of useful data. Besides telling you how many hits your page is getting, it will tell you how many unique visitors your page gets every day/month and shows you who they were. It also tells you such useful info as how many unique visitors you got, what countries they came from and more.
  


• 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
  


• 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.
  


• 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.