Counter Not Working? A Troubleshooting Checklist
If your counter does not appear or your reports stay at zero, this step-by-step checklist finds the cause quickly.
Read the guide →Visitor counter guides
Practical guides to installing your counter, reading your reports and understanding your website traffic.
Website Analytics and Privacy: Cookies, Consent and Visitor Data
What data do analytics tools use, when is consent required and what should your privacy notice say? A plain-language guide for site owners.
Read the guide →How to Increase Website Traffic: 12 Practical Steps for Small Sites
Twelve practical steps one person can take to grow a small website, from quick fixes to long-term assets, and how to measure the results.
Read the guide →Daily, Monthly and Yearly Traffic: Spotting Real Trends
Daily numbers fluctuate. Learn how to compare periods fairly, recognise seasonality and spikes, and know when a drop really needs attention.
Read the guide →Browser and Device Reports: What They Tell You
Browser and device reports show what visitors use to reach your site. Learn how to read them and turn them into practical improvements.
Read the guide →Reading Visitor Countries and Choosing Your Timezone
Visitor countries are estimated from network data and your timezone sets each reporting day. Learn how accurate they are and how to use them.
Read the guide →How to Find Your Most Popular Pages and Use Them
A few pages usually bring most of your visits. Learn how to find them in your reports and seven ways to make them work harder.
Read the guide →Referral Traffic: Finding the Sites That Send You Visitors
Referral visitors arrive from links on other websites. Learn how to read your referrer list, spot spam and earn more good referral traffic.
Read the guide →Direct Traffic: What It Is and Why It Grows
Direct traffic includes typed addresses and bookmarks, but also links from apps and documents. Learn how to read it and reveal hidden sources.
Read the guide →Bot Traffic: How to Recognise and Filter Fake Visits
Crawlers, monitors, scrapers and spam bots all visit websites. Learn how they affect your statistics and how to recognise suspicious traffic.
Read the guide →Why Your Counter and Google Analytics Show Different Numbers
Analytics tools almost never agree. Learn why your counter, Google Analytics and server logs differ, what gap is normal and how to check your setup.
Read the guide →What "Online Users" Really Means in Real-Time Stats
Online user counts are estimates based on recent activity. Learn how they are calculated, why they jump around and how to use them well.
Read the guide →Sessions, Visits and Users: Analytics Terms Explained
Hits, page views, sessions and visitors measure different things. A plain-language guide with a worked example and tips for comparing tools.
Read the guide →What Is Bounce Rate and How Should You Read It?
Bounce rate is often misread. Learn what it measures, when a high value is normal and how pages per visitor gives a clearer picture of engagement.
Read the guide →Visible vs Invisible Counters: Which One Should You Use?
Both options record the same reports. Learn when showing a visitor counter helps your site, when it hurts and how to decide quickly.
Read the guide →How to Add a Hit Counter to Blogger
Place a visible counter in your Blogger sidebar or footer with the HTML/JavaScript gadget, or add hidden tracking to every page through the theme.
Read the guide →How to Add a Visitor Counter to WordPress
Install a visible or hidden visitor counter on WordPress using a Custom HTML block, a widget or a code plugin, and fix common caching problems.
Read the guide →Where do your website visitors come from? A traffic sources guide
Learn how to read traffic sources in GNRCounter, interpret direct visits and compare referrals without confusing visits with sales.
Read the guide →Unique visitors vs. page views: what do they mean?
Understand visitors and page views, why one visitor can create several views, and how to interpret GNRCounter reports.
Read the guide →How to add a free visitor counter to your website
Create a free GNRCounter, choose text or hidden tracking, add the supplied code and check your website visitor statistics.
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