See your visitors

Every Pro Weather site counts its own visitors. The numbers are on the Analytics page of your site in the dashboard, and you can choose to show a visitor counter in your site's footer.

There is nothing to install, no account to create, and the counter needs no cookie consent. For the fuller picture (which pages, which countries, which links people came from) you can add Google Analytics alongside it.

Where to find your numbers

1. In your dashboard, open your site and go to Analytics.
2. Four totals are shown (today, the last 7 days, the last 30 days and all time) plus a bar chart of the last 30 days.

Each total shows two figures: visitors (people) and page views (loads).

Show the counter on your site

1. Open your site and go to Appearance.
2. Find the Visitor counter card and turn on Show "visitors today · total".
3. Choose Save.

Your footer then shows a line like "38 visitors today · 12,847 total" with a small eye icon. It appears under your social links, above the "Powered by Pro Weather" line, and is translated into your site language.

Turning the counter off does not stop the counting. Your Analytics page keeps filling up either way; the switch only decides whether visitors see the number.

What gets counted

• Visitors are counted once per day. Someone who reads your site three times before lunch is one visitor and three page views. Someone who comes back tomorrow is counted again, which is why the all-time figure is a total of daily visits.
• Page views count every load, including reloads.
• Bots and crawlers are left out. Search engines, uptime checkers and link previewers do not inflate your numbers.
• Days run midnight to midnight UTC, not in your station's local time. Your weather day belongs to your station; your visitors arrive from everywhere.
• Your own visits count too. There is no way to tell you apart from anyone else without tracking you, which is the point. If you check your own site every morning, expect roughly one extra visitor a day.

Privacy

This counter is deliberately built so that it does not need consent:

• No cookies are set, and no identifier is stored in your visitors' browsers.
• No IP addresses are kept. To tell one visitor from another within a day, the request is hashed behind a random code that is thrown away every night. Once it is gone, the hash cannot be traced back to anyone, and the same person on two different days cannot be linked either.
• All that is stored is two numbers per day per site: how many visitors, and how many page views.

That is different from Google Analytics, which does use cookies and therefore only loads for visitors who accept them on your consent banner. The two work side by side.

Troubleshooting

My counter shows nothing on the public site

• Check that it is switched on under Appearance → Visitor counter, and that you saved.
• Check that your site is published. An unpublished site shows "coming soon" and counts nothing.
• Check your ad blocker. Some blockers stop the request that both records and fetches the count. The count is unaffected for everyone else; you will not see the line yourself.

The numbers look lower than I expected

Search engines and other bots are excluded on purpose, so this count is usually lower than a raw server log. It's also lower than a "hits" counter, because the headline figure is people rather than page loads.

Today's number went up but the chart hasn't changed

The chart's last bar is today, and it updates as you go. Earlier days are finalised once a night, so a day that just ended settles into place the next morning.

Next steps

• Add Google Analytics
• Use a custom domain
• Share your data on weather networks