We ❤️ 88x31

The retro hit counter badge, back from the dead

Remember when every website had a tiny visitor counter at the bottom of the page? Those 88×31 pixel badges were everywhere in the early web — a badge of honor that said "people actually visit my site." I looked everywhere for an embeddable hit counter — even Google doesn't have one. So I built this. No JavaScript, no cookies, no tracking. Just a single image tag.

Pick a style

<a href="/api/public/p/aHR0cHM6Ly84OHgzMS5sb2wv">

  <img src="/api/public/p/aHR0cHM6Ly84OHgzMS5sb2wvY291bnRlci5naWY"

    alt="88x31 - Visitor counter" width="88" height="31" />

</a>

📋 Click to copy Copied!

The incredibly complex setup

Paste the snippet

Add the HTML embed code anywhere on your page. It's just an image tag — no JavaScript required.

Visitors load the badge

Each time a new visitor loads your page, the badge image is requested and they're counted automatically.

You're awesome

You already were, obviously. But now you're awesome with a tiny retro counter to prove it.

Today's top sites

#	Domain	Today	Total
1.	tomcat.sh	86	21.00K
2.	wiki.iphoster.net	57	137.88K
3.	shens.world	20	8.49K
4.	burgeonlab.com	19	2.15K
5.	██████████████████████	17	12.23K
6.	█████████████	15	98
7.	██████████████	13	3.38K
8.	hutch3g.eu	9	3.30K
9.	lost-builds.byartem.com	9	5.48K
10.	lapislabel.net	9	267

Updates every 2 minutes. Verify your domain to unmask it.

Privacy first

Your badge sets no cookies, starts no sessions, and stores no visitor data. I count unique visitors using bloom filters — a clever counting trick that can check if someone was already counted today, but can never be reversed to identify who visited. The filter resets every day.

The only information I keep per site is two numbers: today's unique count and the all-time total. That's it.

This landing page does run Google Analytics so I know if anyone actually shows up. The irony is not lost on me. Your badge doesn't touch any of that though.

Thanks accepted

Free, and it stays free. Running it still costs me a bit every year, domain included. If you want to say thanks, buy me a coffee. Or skip the coffee and just be decent to people. That counts too.