Stat Counters

[johnnybg]

I think that traffic counters are a waste of load time on free sites and TGP galleries.

What stats do you need on a free site/gallery? Number of visitors? Who is sending traffic? You can get those stats from your web server logs anytime. But who cares anyway?

The only thing you should monitor is how many sales you had from which FS/gallery page. That's all. Looking at other data is useless.

Myself, once a month I harvest my server logs and check out if any of the traffic sources had dried up. I also check if any of bad traffic sources showed up and block their IPs.