ReaderCount
Simple, private website stats for bloggers and small sites. See which posts people read, where they came from and which links they click. No cookies, no cookie banner, and your stats stay yours.
One email when we launch, nothing else. Or try the live demo.
ReaderCount answers the questions bloggers actually ask, on one simple page that works on your phone.
Visitors, page views, how long people stay on each post, and how many are on your site right now.
Google, Reddit, X, newsletters and your own campaigns, named in plain English.
Clicks on affiliate links and downloads, counted for you on every post. No setup needed.
No cookies and nothing stored on your readers' devices. Visitors are counted without ever being tracked.
Ghost, WordPress, Squarespace, Wix or hand-built. Add one line and you're done.
Let us host it, or install it on your own Cloudflare account. Move whenever you like, history and all.
No server, no plugin to keep updated, nothing to learn.
Tell us your email and your website's address.
Copy your line into your site's header. In Ghost it's Settings, Code injection.
<script defer src="…/s.js" data-site="yourblog.com"></script>Open your stats page on any device. The numbers update as people visit.
Google Analytics is free, but it's built for advertisers and needs a cookie banner. ReaderCount is built for writers.
| ReaderCount | Google Analytics | Other privacy tools | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Needs a cookie banner | No | Yes, in the UK and EU | Usually no |
| Affiliate link clicks per post | Built in | Needs setting up | Set up one by one |
| Easy to read | One page | Dozens of reports | Yes |
| Run it on your own account | Yes, in one click | No | Needs your own server |
| Price | Simple yearly price, or a one-off for your own account | Free | About £7 to £15 a month |
Not for ReaderCount. It uses no cookies and stores nothing on your readers' devices. If you use other tools that do, such as ads or Google Analytics, they may still need one.
Each visit is turned into a scrambled code that changes every day. We can tell that the same person read three posts today, but not who they are, and not that they came back tomorrow. IP addresses are never stored.
No. The script is under 2 KB, around a fiftieth of the size of Google's, and it loads after your page.
Yes. Many people run both for a few weeks to compare. ReaderCount usually shows more visitors, because ad blockers and cookie refusals hide people from Google.
Cloudflare runs a large part of the internet and has a free plan. If you'd rather nobody else held your stats, ReaderCount can install itself onto your own free account, so the data lives with you. Most blogs would never pay Cloudflare anything for it.
We'll announce prices at launch. People on the waiting list hear first.
It's made in the UK by the people behind KT8 Mail, private email on your own Cloudflare account.
Join the waiting list and we'll email you once, when ReaderCount opens.