Add a visitor count on your GitHub profile with one line of Markdown

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

![Visitor Count](https://profile-counter.glitch.me/{YOUR USER}/count.svg)

I'd love to know what you think!

Comments

[Julian Pufler]

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 👍

[JanMam111]

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.

[Julian Pufler]

Thank you!

[José Romero]

Thanks I added it to my profile!
github.com/jdromero88

[Julian Pufler]

awesome!

[Ryan Lanciaux]

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.

[Julian Pufler]

Oh, didn't know that, I figured it was a normal free glitch instance like the one that went more or less down. Cool!

[Rahul Jain]

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[Ryan Lanciaux]

Cool.

[Vikram Kadiam]

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?

[Rahul Jain]

Yes because its visit-count not unique-visit-count

[Lakshya Singh]

There 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.

[Ryan Lanciaux]

I was not aware of that one. I have no intent on removing this one :D

[Gayan Kuruppu]

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

[Jon Randy 🎖️]

Seems to add page views - pretty different from a real visitor count. Hit refresh, the count goes up

[Ryan Lanciaux]

Refresh is a new view of the page :) it’s working as intended

[Jon Randy 🎖️]

So, this is also a new view of the page! 😄

curl https://profile-counter.glitch.me/{YOUR USER}/count.svg

[Ryan Lanciaux]

Curl is pretty cool 👍

[Jon Randy 🎖️]

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

[Ryan Lanciaux]

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)

[Luca]

Thank you Ryan, easily way with awesome result!

[Ryan Lanciaux]

Thanks for the kind words! Glad it works out for you :)

[Rahul Jain]

Considered

[Nirbhay Vashisht]

It is awesome. Thanks

[Prince Muel]

how do you insert the {your user} variable?

[Serhii Pimenov]

this script increase counter on each hit. you can wind up the counter by reloading the page to insane indicators!

[Ryan Lanciaux]

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).