hit counter

Website visit tally

A hit counter is a tool that tracks and displays how many times a webpage has been visited.

Common on personal websites in the 1990s and early 2000s, hit counters often appeared as animated digit displays at the bottom of pages: Proud to announce we've reached 10,000 hits!

The feature has largely disappeared as web analytics moved behind the scenes.

Related

pageviews · register · monitor · web analytics · recorder · measurer · meter · visitors · widget · site metrics · gauge · view count · indicator · user engagement · odometer · analytics · odometer · analytics

Categories
Opposites
visibility/display of metrics

hit counterGoogle Analytics

Website traffic measurement platform

web design era/aesthetic

hit counterresponsive design

Layout adapting to screens

Web 2.0

Family

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Familiarity
Top 500,000
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Used worldwide · Concrete · Rated G