Paste this HTML snippet into your footer, widget area, or sidebar.
Ideal for GitHub profile READMEs, repository documentation, and GitLab wikis.
Use in forum signatures (vBulletin, XenForo, phpBB).
Direct high-resolution scalable SVG image endpoint.
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About Website Hit Counters & Visitor Badges
A Website Hit Counter is one of the most enduring and trusted staples of internet culture. Originating in the early days of personal web pages on GeoCities and Web 1.0, visitor counters provided webmasters with immediate, visible social proof of audience traffic. Today, hit counters have evolved into modern, sleek, SVG-rendered GitHub visitor badges and dynamic website metrics shields that proudly showcase engagement without bloating page weight.
Our free tool allows you to design and embed custom hit counters in seconds. With styles ranging from clean modern shields and GitHub badges to nostalgic mechanical odometers and cybernetic neon LED matrices, you can tailor your counter to match your brand and aesthetic perfectly.
Key Features of Our Website Hit Counter
Versatile Visual Styles: Switch seamlessly between Modern Flat, Flat Square, 90s Retro Odometer, Digital LED, and Gradient Pill styles.
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG): Badges are served as razor-sharp SVGs that render with crystal clarity on Retina and 4K monitors without any pixelation.
Universal Embed Options: 1-click copy for HTML, GitHub Markdown, BBCode, and direct SVG image links.
Custom Starting Number: Migrate your existing traffic history by setting a custom starting count so you never lose track of past milestones.
Zero Dependencies & 100% Free: No heavy external JavaScript tracker required. The counter loads effortlessly without dragging down page load times or Core Web Vitals.
How to Add a Hit Counter to Your GitHub Profile README
Adding a visitor counter to your GitHub repository or profile README takes under 30 seconds:
Enter your GitHub username or repository path (e.g., yourusername) in the identifier field.
Select the Flat Square or Modern Flat style to match GitHub's native badge UI.
Click on the Markdown tab below and copy the generated snippet.
Paste the snippet at the top or bottom of your README.md file on GitHub, commit your changes, and watch your visitor count grow!
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
A hit refers to every individual request received by the server for a resource or page view. If one user visits three separate pages on your website, that generates three hits. A unique visitor counts each individual human user only once within a 24-hour period regardless of how many pages they browse.
No! The badge is rendered as a lightweight SVG graphic (under 1 KB in size). Because it does not run client-side JavaScript analytics libraries, it will not impact your website's PageSpeed or Core Web Vitals score.
Yes. You can adjust the &count=... parameter directly in your embed URL at any time if you wish to adjust your milestone count or recalibrate your metrics.
