X-Stats Counter... Good Or Garbage?
 

Has anyone used it? http://www.xstats.com

If not what counters do you use?

Third party counters are for people who are also mesmerized by small shiny objects.

They steal your traffic.

They dont count worth a fuck.

Stick to server logs or find a perl script to do the job, and do the job better.

mkstats works good
just get your server admin to install some scripts
labret is right, third party counting is very flawed

third party counters are only really good for getting new clients on pre-paid ads. If you arn't doing pre-paid ads and constantly looking for new clients then you're a fool to use them. (unless of course you need the ego boost)


there - some useful info. Don't expect much more.

and besides, why do you want everyone to know how much traffic you do have or how much traffic you do not have?

I actually only use my server stats but I ran across an article a while ago and bookmarked x-stats link because they offer/offered an invisible counter. That would be the only way I would put a counter on my sites but I wanted to know some of what you told me... is it worth it.

So many different sites have those ugly flashing traffic leaks on their sites I started wondering,

If they are willing to risk some traffic, no matter how minimal, I wonder what makes it worth it?!

Not everybody knows if you have stats that are protected from the other surfers. Password protected free stats are very helpfull for webmasters who have no access to serverlogs or do not know how to manage a php/cgi counter themselves.

You'll be amazed how many people do not know what they are doing on the net.