@Bd808: Ooh, this is nice, I did not know about the existence of this service!
I wonder if there is an easy way for the tool view to tell if a view was from a bot? Regards, Sohom Datta --- Open-source contributor @Wikimedia On Thu, May 21, 2026 at 12:15 PM Bryan Davis via Wikitech-l < [email protected]> wrote: > 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/
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