On Wed, May 20, 2026 at 11:45 PM Suyash Dwivedi via Wikitech-l <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I've always been curious about how many people actually visit my Toolforge > tools - and I suspect I'm not alone. So I built Toolcounter > (https://toolcounter.toolforge.org/), a lightweight, privacy-friendly hit > counter designed specifically for Toolforge-hosted tools. > > What it tracks > > 📄 Page views - counted on every page load (including refreshes). Good for > total traffic. > 👤 Sessions (unique visit approximation) — uses sessionStorage in the > visitor's browser. First open in a tab = 1 session. Refresh = not counted > again. New tab = counted again. No cookies, no IP, no personal data stored. > > Both counts appear separately on the dashboard with a per-day bar chart. > > Quick integration (replace YOUR_TOOL and PAGE) > > Option 1 - SVG badge (no JS, image only, shows page views): > <img > src="https://toolcounter.toolforge.org/badge.php?tool=YOUR_TOOL&page=PAGE"; > alt="Page views"> > > Option 2 - JS embed (shows both views + unique sessions): > 👁 Views: <span id="tc-views"></span> > 👤 Unique: <span id="tc-sessions"></span> > <script > src="https://toolcounter.toolforge.org/embed.js.php?tool=YOUR_TOOL&page=PAGE";></script> > > An embed code generator is available on the homepage. > > Privacy > The database stores zero personal data, only anonymous counters per (tool, > page) pair. No cookies are set. No IP addresses, User-Agent strings, or > usernames are ever written to the database. Full privacy policy: > https://toolcounter.toolforge.org/privacy.php > > Source code is publicly available and open for audit.
Seeing many flowers bloom is great. There is also a system you can use at https://toolviews.toolforge.org/api/ which attempts to count 2xx status responses ("hits") for all tools by parsing the access logs generated at the Toolforge reverse proxy service. That system does not currently have a nice UI, but it does have data going back to at least 2019 and does not require inserting tracking tokens in your pages. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA [[m:User:BDavis (WMF)]] irc: bd808 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikitech-l.lists.wikimedia.org/
