Every number that matters, on one page
Five tiles across the top: unique visitors, page views, average time on page, bounce rate and outbound clicks. Click a tile and the chart shows that number instead.
- A daily chart with a dashed line for the period before, so you can see at a glance whether you are up or down
- Hover over any day for its exact figures
- Today, the last 7 or 30 days, 12 months, or any dates you choose
- All your websites side by side on one overview, with today’s visitors and the top source for each
Where your readers come from
Sources are named in plain English: Google, Bing, Reddit, X (Twitter), Facebook, your newsletter, or Direct for people who typed the address or used a bookmark. Each one has its own icon and its share of your visitors.
Next to your top pages you also see entry and exit pages: the first and last page of each visit.
Found by AI
See how many readers ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Copilot and other AI services send you, which pages they send them to, and whether it’s growing. Still no cookies.
Campaigns, without the setup
Add utm_source, utm_medium and utm_campaign to the links in your newsletter, social posts or adverts, and each campaign gets its own row with its visitors. There is nothing to switch on.
yourblog.com/review/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=october
Countries, devices and browsers
See which countries your readers are in, with a flag for each, and whether they read on a phone, tablet or computer, and in which browser.
Click any row, whether a source, page, campaign, country, device or browser, and the whole dashboard filters to it. Remove the filter from the chip at the top.
Real time, as it happens
A green dot shows when someone is on your site right now, and your stats refresh by themselves every 30 seconds. Click it to watch visitors move around your site live: the page each one is on, where they came from and the pages they’ve seen today, still without cookies.
Pin ReaderCount to your phone’s home screen or your computer’s dock. It opens like an app, with no app store needed.
Notes on the chart
Pin a short note to any day, such as “Shared on Reddit” or “Sent the newsletter”. Months later, when you wonder why a day was busy, the answer is on the chart.
How far people read, and how fast
See how far down each page readers get, how many get halfway and how many reach the end, so you know which posts hold attention and where people give up.
Page speed comes from your readers’ own browsers: Google’s Core Web Vitals for each page, on phones and on computers, rated Good, Needs attention or Requires fix. Still no cookies, and nothing that follows a reader.
Bring your history with you
Upload a CSV of daily visitors and page views from Google Analytics, Plausible, Fathom or Matomo, and your chart goes back years instead of starting today. History fills only the days before ReaderCount started counting, so nothing is counted twice.
Fake traffic left out
Bots and scripts make numbers look better than they are. ReaderCount quietly leaves them out, so the figures you see are people.
- Visits from cloud servers such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, DigitalOcean and Hetzner are not counted. iCloud Private Relay and similar privacy services still are.
- Hits that don’t come from a real web page are ignored, so a simple script can’t add visits
- One visitor loading far more pages in a day than a person could stops being counted for that day
- Your stats page tells you how many hits were left out, so you know the numbers are clean
To stop counting your own visits, open any page of your site once with #readercount-ignore on the end of the address.
