What it does is take a few lines of code that open up a file called ( countlog.txt) and changes a simple number in it. Using your own counter images. All you need to do is paste this counter html code onto your website html for the hit counter to show and start counting your hits to your website. It's simple to create a free web site counter for professional websites, personal home pages, BLOG web pages, MySpace, Xanga, MSN Spaces, Blogger, etc., using one of our cool unique styles or our hidden invisible counters. Our hit counters are easy to use, simple to install on your website, webpage, blog, craigslist listing etc, and best of all they are free to use. It's free service and no registration is required - identification is realized by the URL of a page and the domain of a website. And the snippet in action is available on this JS fiddle. instance of a counter is automatically created in child elements. In my top 10 Counter website list i will place Gostats.com on 5th position // Get today's date and time.