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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. |
 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.
 Site Meter - Here's a free Web counter and 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.
 Stat Track - A solid free Web site tracking service, Stat Track offers you plenty of information about your visitors, including plenty of data to
help you improve your site and its traffic. Data available here includes visitors per hour, visitors per day; last 20 visitors, top 20 referrers, last 20 referrers, screen dimensions, color depth, JavaScript status and domains. Stat Track is easy to sign up for and implement on your site. Users now have the choice of making their stats either password protected or public.
- Counter4Free.com - Looking for a good, basic counter for your page? This free service offers over 50 counter styles to choose from and they're easy to install. What makes this service unique is that they display no ads on your counter. This counter has "reload protection" (which means that each unique visitor will be counted only once).
- WebsiteTracker.com - This is a nifty new free tracking service that offers detailed stats about who is visiting your Web site. Unlike many free trackers, this service doesn't burden your page with a banner. You can retrieve customized reports about your traffic any time, including referrers, search engine traffic, total hits, unique hits and average traffic and much more.
- 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. You may view sample stats here.
- WebSite Designs: 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.
- FreeStats - Nice free 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.
- Counter.com - A solid new free counter and tracker service, 123Counter offers sharp-looking counters, which you can customize for your site. Easy to set up; no fussing about with CGI scripts is required. Just follow the instructions to create your custom counter; cut and paste a snippet of HTML code to your page; and you're good to go.
- 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 (although the service's stats page can be slow to access at times). The only drawback to Extreme Tracking's free service is that your stats may be accessed by anyone.
- XOOMCounter - A strong new contender among the Web's free page tracking services, XOOMCounter is easy to set up on your page and offers loads of stats. Here, you get password-protected, real-time stats that offers a complete breakdown of page views by date, day and time. XOOMCounter lets you know where your visitors came from and offers data on your visitors' platforms, browser types, hostnames and more. XOOM, by the way, is a major portal that offers many other free goodies for Web authors, including free Web space.
- HitBOX- - This constantly improving free Java-based tracking service has recently undergone a major upgrade. HitBOX now offers much more data about your visitors, including valuable referral information (when your visitors arrived, where they came from, etc.). When you sign up for HitBOX, you get a listing in the popular directory, WebSideStory, which can bring you extra visitors. Sites listed with WebSideStory 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.
- HitBox's new tracker offers over 500 statistics about your traffic. Other features include multiple page tracking and data about how your visitors navigate through your site.
- WebSideStory offers a banner program. If you display one of their banners, they'll place your own banner into their rotation of ads.
- Gumball Web site Tracker - A 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.
- NedStat - Solid free tracker with all kinds of detailed stats, including what page referred your visitors to you---a essential feature that's rare among free tracking services. NedStat is now also offering a month trial period for its more advanced and detailed NedStat Pro. NedStat also offers a version in Dutch. "NedStat Basic," their free service, is intended only for individual home pages. It's a fine service, but note that your stats here will be public.
- TheCounter.com - This is a 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. We've have complaints of people losing their accounts here. Tech support can be hard to reach at times.
- 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.
- FastCounter - The Web's largest banner service, LinkExchange, offers a free counter service, as well. This easy-to-implement service offers you stats via E-mail. Several counter styles are available. No porn or "inappropriate" sites allowed. Visitors have reported lately that they've not been receiving their stats by E-mail.
- 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.
- Crazy Counter - A joke page counter, available in both Java and animated GIF versions.
- Better Counter - (As of June, 1999, Better Counter is no longer free; they charge $5/month). 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.
- Dyno Counter - Just cut & paste some code and Voila! 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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