Want a bit of nostalgia and a counter for your website?
Just add this HTML:
This is a per site count (based on the referrer behavior of modern browsers via defaults for
Referrer-Policy,
to avoid different behavior across browsers, the counter will not read the path from the
referrer). If you want a per page count change the src to be:
src="//hi.tcounter.com?url=https://your-site/page" (you'll need to do
this per page via server side templating, or use JavaScript).
Yes. It's another web counter but it looks like the (in)famous site TheCounter.com, which was popular in the late 90s and early 2000s. The Counter is now a burger place, which is probably tastier than a web counter, go try them if you're near one.
TCounter.com is not associated with either incarnation of the site known as TheCounter.com.
Minimal data is stored by this service. For each URL visited with the tcounter image embedded a count and the last date and time it was updated is stored. Unlike the original service no cookies are used, so the counter does not count "sessions" but visits (visitors' IP addresses and User-Agent strings are stored in a non-reversible cryptographic hash for 2 hours in memory only to avoid double counting). No logs are stored in regular operation; in some cases for troubleshooting and maintaining security, data including your IP address, browser headers and page visited may be stored for up to 12 hours. No personal data is stored long-term. If you want the data for your URLs deleted or have other GDPR questions, email gdprq｛ªᵗ｝icloud.com.
If you embed this in your site, we guarantee it will never set cookies, so you do not need to add a GDPR "cookie" banner to remain compliant with the GDPR. There may be other GDPR requirements such as disclosing the use of this service in a privacy policy. This is not legal advice and you should seek advice if in doubt.
Use CSS to provide a data URL for a blank version of the counter, makes the load less visible (back in the day that extra 1.6K would have hurt).
If you don't want a look like TheCounter.com there's also a minimal counter. Add
?style=minimal. You can also play with ?style=dark,gray,light and
?style=left,right,center. For example ?style=right,light.
We prefer not to use JavaScript, but if you like you can:
(document.write is deprecated, but the goal here is this should work on older browsers, so using it is a trade-off. We'd recommend to use server side templating if you can for the url parameter, or use the default per site counting mode.)
Up to you, it's supposed to be a bit of fun, with just a counter. If you really don't like it but still want some counter like thing, have a look at GoatCounter or Umami or Plausible or more...