In a previous article, I wrote about how you could add a visitor counter to your GitHub profile with a little node/express app. The article suggested that if you wanted to add a counter to your GitHub profile, you could copy and run the code on your own server. I've recently updated this operation to be a lot easier.
You can now add a counter to your GitHub profile with the following line of Markdown
I'd love to know what you think!
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I built the same thing a few days ago, hosting it on my dedicated server so it won't get any rate-limit oder downtime. badges.pufler.dev 👍
It looks amazing. I can advise you to use a dedicated server if you want your site to work perfectly all the time. I use intergrid.com.au/dedicated.php.au for many years, they have the best offers at the best prices. I really appreciate that they provide help and they were in general first to explain to me what exactly I needed. Try to check it, maybe you'll find it useful for your purposes. Moreover, it is available not only in one country, so it'd be useful for people from different countries.
Thank you!
Thanks I added it to my profile!
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awesome!
Very cool. Looks nice.
A note of potential clarification.. this is using a “boosted” server (paid feature) in glitch. There should be no downtime or rate limiting like the non-boosted tier.
Oh, didn't know that, I figured it was a normal free glitch instance like the one that went more or less down. Cool!
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Hey Rahul, that's a pretty useful tool.It looks like the visitor counter is counting even the browser refreshes from same user.Is this expected?
Yes because its
visit-countnotunique-visit-countThere was another provider with same service named visitor-profile-badge, It recently stopped working and I was left with no other option other than to just remove it. I hope your application is there to stay :) because it's not good that you make something it stops working cause of server or other load.
I was not aware of that one. I have no intent on removing this one :D
Seems to add page views - pretty different from a real visitor count. Hit refresh, the count goes up
Refresh is a new view of the page :) it’s working as intended
So, this is also a new view of the page! 😄
Curl is pretty cool 👍
You'd be better off checking the referrer to make sure the image was loaded in the context of the page where the counter is. Otherwise, you're just counting 'loads' of that image - wherever they may have come from
A referrer check would work in many contexts, however, the primary intent of this project is for use on GitHub. GitHub has a caching later that prevents tracking docs.github.com/en/github/authenti... - this is a “for fun” project that I made quickly in hopes people would have fun with it on their GitHub profiles. If this were a commercial product or an analytics package that was not for use on GitHub, I would check the referrer among other things.
If you are interested in making changes (as a new project), the code is available in the prior article mentioned above (noting there is no database in that version)
I created this GitHub Action that uses GitHub API. It updates daily and does not require any servers or databases. It automatically saves changes into the repository. Go to the template GitHub Insights Template
Thank you Ryan, easily way with awesome result!
Thanks for the kind words! Glad it works out for you :)
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It is awesome. Thanks
how do you insert the {your user} variable?
this script increase counter on each hit. you can wind up the counter by reloading the page to insane indicators!
So you're saying it works? :D Each time you reload the page it counts as a new visit. This is partially due to every visit coming from GitHub's camo caching layer (no way to tell if it's a repeat visitor since they are ALL repeat visitors).