# Recommend me a good - no, great - website counter

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-good-no-great-website-counter/352898>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 16, 2006, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-good-no-great-website-counter/352898 "2006-04-16T19:11:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2006, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-good-no-great-website-counter/352898/1 "2006-04-16T19:11:33Z")

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I’d like a counter to keep track of traffic on my website. I’m not too conversent on anything besides html, so geekspeak won’t help. I also want a free one - so those Dopers who have a website, let me know what you use, and how you like it…

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**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2006, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-good-no-great-website-counter/352898/2 "2006-04-16T21:40:31Z")

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Your web server’s web statistics. Accessing those stats can be done with a variety of freeware tools. [Here’s just one of the better ones.](http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/)

Oh, sorry. You wanted one of those eye candy thingies. A Captain Dunzel, so to speak. My apologies. [Take your pick.](http://www.google.com/search?hs=7it&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=web+counter&btnG=Search)

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**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2006, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-good-no-great-website-counter/352898/3 "2006-04-17T03:04:51Z")

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> [@Duckster](#):
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> Your web server’s web statistics. Accessing those stats can be done with a variety of freeware tools. [Here’s just one of the better ones.](http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/)
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> Oh, sorry. You wanted one of those eye candy thingies. A Captain Dunzel, so to speak. My apologies. [Take your pick.](http://www.google.com/search?hs=7it&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=web+counter&btnG=Search)

Thanks, **Ducks**. I was hoping for a recommendation on one to use - there are a billion of 'em out there, I thought maybe someone has used one and is really happy with it…

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**Author:** ![xash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c6cbf5/32.png) [@xash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xash)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2006, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-good-no-great-website-counter/352898/4 "2006-04-17T06:42:30Z")

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Moved to IMHO.

- **xash**  
General Questions Moderator

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**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2006, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-good-no-great-website-counter/352898/5 "2006-04-17T07:13:39Z")

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I’ve generally been happy with [statcounter](http://www.statcounter.com), but I haven’t gone comparison-shopping lately.