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.

Feedback and contributions are very welcome. Happy to answer questions here or on my talk page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Suyash.dwivedi

Cheers,
Suyash Dwivedi
https://toolcounter.toolforge.org/