For information on counting visits to a Wikipedia page, see Wikipedia FAQ (Can I add a page hit counter to a Wikipedia page?).
The number is usually displayed, with image or text, as an old inline digital image, a plain text or an old mechanical counter. Image renderization of digits may use a variety of fonts and styles; the classic example is the wheels of an odometer. The counter is often accompanied by the date it was set up or last reset, otherwise it becomes impossible to estimate within what time the number of page loads counted occurred.A web counter or hit counter is a computer software program that indicates the number of visitors, or hits, a particular webpage has received. Once set up, these counters will be incremented by one every time the web page is accessed in a web browser.
Web counter was popular in the 1980s[dubious ] and 1990's, later replaced by more util and complete web traffic measures.