Adding a free hit counter to your Freeserve webpages

(Please note: I have no official link with Freeserve, other than as a satisfied customer.)

This free hit counters page contains links to a number of different free hit counters and as a consequence may take a long time to load.

If you get fed up of waiting, hit the stop button of your browser and the text of page will (hopefully) load without the images of the free hit counters.

Freeserve do not currently (January 1999) provide a hit counter, logs or any other statistics about visitors to one's pages.

I've heard that this is because counters are a major drain on the servers, but I don't know whether this is true or not.

There are a lot of free hit counters available out there, but many of them are unreliable and a slow counter can virtually halt the loading of a webpage. All of then are graphical and some of them use Javascript and/or cookies and these counters will not work if these features are disabled or absent in a browser. Some counters carry advertising and as a consequence are large and ugly (*). I don't use routinely use a counter in my pages for this reason, but I've included some here for illustration and comparison.

Two sites which list counters and trackers are http://www.freewarehome.com/ and http://www.thefreesite.com/ but the counters and trackers which have been most often recommended by respondents in the freeserve.help.webspace and freeserve.webspace.authoring newsgroups are listed below (in no particular order)