ReaderCount
Everything you want to know about your readers. Nothing you don’t.
Intuitive, private stats for blogs, newsletters and small business sites. Every feature is on every plan, and every account starts with a 30-day trial.
Traffic and sources
Visitors, pages, sources and campaigns on one clear dashboard, live as it happens, with fake traffic left out.
- Real time
- Campaigns
- Countries and devices
- Chart notes
- History import
Google search
The searches behind every post from Search Console, and a weekly list of posts worth fixing.
- Search Console
- What to fix
- Monday email
Clicks and earnings
Affiliate link clicks and downloads counted for you, earnings for every post, and alerts when a link breaks.
- Link clicks
- Downloads
- Earnings per post
- Broken links
Goals and missing pages
Count sign-ups and form sends with one attribute, and find the missing pages visitors land on.
- Goals
- Sign-ups
- Missing pages
Alerts and reports
An email when a post takes off, a monthly review, a public stats page for sponsors and exports.
- Spike alerts
- Monthly review
- Public stats
- CSV, Excel, PDF
Claude and the API
Ask Claude about your traffic in plain English, or pull your stats into your own tools.
- Claude connector
- REST API
Every feature, on every plan
Solo and Business get exactly the same features. The only difference is how many websites and page views.
- Visitors, page views, time on page
- Bounce rate and outbound clicks
- Sources in plain English
- Entry and exit pages
- UTM campaigns
- Countries, devices and browsers
- One-click filters
- Real-time visitors
- Add to your home screen
- Notes on the chart
- Import your history
- Fake traffic left out
- Google Search Console
- What to fix
- Weekly email
- Link clicks
- Affiliate links tagged
- Downloads
- Earnings per post
- Broken link alerts
- Goals and sign-ups
- Missing page report
- Traffic spike alerts
- Monthly review
- Public stats page and badge
- CSV, Excel and PDF export
- Claude connector
- REST API
- All your websites in one place
- Download or delete everything
Set up in two minutes
Nothing to install on a server, no plugin to keep updated and nothing new to learn.
Sign up
Enter your email address, type in the code we send you, and add your website’s address.
Add one line to your site
Paste the line we give you into your site’s <head>. In Ghost, that’s Settings › Code injection › Site header.
<script defer src="https://app.readercount.com/s.js" data-site="yourblog.com"></script>Watch your readers arrive
Open your stats on any device and see visitors as they arrive, with no cookie banner needed.
Where to paste it
| Platform | Where it goes |
|---|---|
| KT8 Blog Builder | Plugins › ReaderCount › switch on Count visitors (no code to paste) |
| Ghost | Settings › Code injection › Site header |
| WordPress | Header code plugin (e.g. WPCode) or theme custom header settings |
| Framer | Site settings › General › Custom code › Start of <head> tag |
| Webflow | Site settings › Custom code › Head code |
| Squarespace | Settings › Developer tools (Advanced) › Code injection › Header |
| Wix | Settings › Custom code › Add custom code › Head placement |
| Shopify | Online Store › Themes › Edit code › theme.liquid › Before </head> |
| Blogger | Theme › Edit HTML › Before </head> |
| Custom HTML / Static (Hugo, Astro, Next.js) | Inside the <head> tag of your main layout template |
When you sign up, your line is ready to copy with your website already filled in.
How ReaderCount compares
Most analytics tools are built for advertisers. ReaderCount is built for writers and publishers. Why the numbers differ from Google Analytics. Side by side with Plausible, Fathom and Simple Analytics.
| Feature | ReaderCount | Google Analytics (GA4) | Other privacy analytics |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cookie banner | Not required | Opt-in banner needed (UK and EU GDPR) | Typically not required |
| Visitor privacy | No cookies and no personal data kept | Client IDs & persistent cross-site profiles | Cookie-free hashing |
| Link clicks and events | Automated out-of-the-box | Requires manual event tagging | Custom code or a paid upgrade |
| Google Search Console | Native read-only integration | Needs linking separately | Varies, often limited |
| Ease of use | Single streamlined dashboard | Dozens of complex enterprise reports | Simplified single-page view |
| What happens to your data | Never sold, rented or used for adverts or AI | Integrated with Google Ads ecosystems | Typically not commercialised |
| Hosting | Fully hosted for you on Cloudflare | Hosted exclusively on Google servers | Managed SaaS tier |
| Price | From £9 a month after a 30-day trial, 50,000 page views included | Free | Approx. £7 to £15 per month |
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Our clean data pledge
Your stats belong to you. These promises are part of our Privacy Policy.
No advertising profiles
Your stats and Google searches are never sold, rented or used to target adverts or build profiles of people.
No AI training
Your website’s data is never used to train AI.
Nobody looks without asking
We never look at your stats unless you ask us to, to help with a support question.
Deleted when you leave
Disconnect Google Search Console and the searches we copied are deleted straight away. Delete your account and everything goes with it.
Try every feature for 30 days.
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