Hitcount.me – Live Website Popularity

In plain words

Hitcount.me is a website popularity tracking tool that measures live traffic by allowing site owners to embed a simple hidden image tag on their pages. The service processes traffic data using nginx, redis, and syslog-ng to track page hits in real time. It is designed for website owners who want a lightweight method to monitor visitor activity without complex setup or configuration.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

From the sources

I’ve been experimenting quite a bit lately with various neat things you can do using just nginx, redis, and syslog-ng. Most recently I wrote about how to use dynamic log formats in nginx. Before that I wrote about an interesting way to implement realtime pixel tracking. I’ve decided to put some of these things together into a simple site that someone might find interesting. The idea is pretty basic. Just include the following HTML somewhere on your page: <img style="display:none;" src="https://hitcount.me/hit.gif" /> What and Why This is an experiment that I started out implementing for my own blog posts. Like a lot of people, I get a fair amount of traffic from the typical news aggregator…from benwilber.github.io

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