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. 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.)
- 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.
- 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. 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.
- 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.
- 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 - 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.
- IMChat Access
Counter Service - Here's an
interesting counter with a new twist: it allows
you to view how many people are looking at your
page(s). If someone goes to your page while you
are viewing it, the counter will be bumped up one
number. If that person leaves, the counter will
be decreased. All this happens live. (Note: this
application is incompatible with MSIE 4).
- 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.
- Siteflow Free
Counters - Fast-growing 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- Free Web Counter - Fill out
a survey and get a free easy-to-use counter.
Nice.
- 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.
- Page Count - Counter
service with good & bad news. The good---it
provides lots of stats: How many people viewed
your page; a breakdown of page views by date,
day, and time; a list of where the requests for
your page originated; the hostnames of the
visitors! (up to 100 max) and unlimited hits. The
bad news is you have to display their banner.
- 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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