Sitemeter , one of the best counter i ever seen for website owners, it shows online users, Referrals (From where people coming to your site), country locations, browser etc etc.. all in detail.
I am using it in almost all my sites and blogs, but i hacked the Sitemeter to hide it. This feature (Hidden counter) is available in PRO version only, but you can easily hack it to hide it. Remember i am not going to teach you anything special or any coding changes which may break there terms of use.
Its just few setting changes which will work fine.
so want to hide your sitemeter counter ?
1. Offcourse Login to your sitemeter account and go to manager.
2. Now next , Go to Meter style option from left hand menu.
3. Select 2nd last meter style (Counter, which shows simple numbers).
4. Now in “DIGIT COLOR” select transparent similarly in “BACKGROUND COLOR” select transparent.
5. DONE. now your sitemeter counter is invisible from normal eyes in your site
Place it anywhere in your blog, and track your traffic, users.
NOTE : Doing this hack will NOT make you voiding the TOS of Sitemeter, so do it unless they fix it. 
Jul 16, 2008 at 5:37 pm
Great tip! This tip will result into a faster loading time for any blog who uses sitemeter
Keep on sharing ^_^
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Jul 16, 2008 at 11:00 pm
Yeah thanks Marc,
due to image of the sitemeter, it takes few sec. to load.
now it will load slightly quicker.
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Jul 17, 2008 at 3:57 pm
well i don’t think a 125×125 Pixel Size image would take a long time to load !!
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Jul 17, 2008 at 6:14 pm
That’s a cool trick.. With this trick I’m going to use it again!
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Jul 18, 2008 at 1:20 am
Why will it be any faster to load just because you made it transparent? You still have to connect to their site to get the numbers right? The overhead will take more time in this case than actually the data but that would still be true even if they are black.
It is violating the spirit of their TOS if not the letter of it to do this. But I agree they should fix it.
BTW tanks for visiting my blog and I may take you up on that challenge to write more lyrics.
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Jul 19, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Thats really superb trick, now i am tracking my visitors with FREE Invible counter
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Aug 8, 2008 at 5:54 pm
Hi,
The better and easy way to hide site counter OR any other counter is to use DIV HTML Tag with CSS hidden attribute.
For example:
If you like to hide site counter wrap site counter code with DIV tags:
site counter code
Regards,
Ukion
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Aug 8, 2008 at 5:56 pm
I miss the example:
<div style=”visibility: hidden;”>
site counter copy/paste code
<div>
Ukion
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Sep 15, 2008 at 8:24 am
Thanks dude for sharing this Great trick for Invisible Sitemeter ….
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Feb 24, 2009 at 11:25 am
Nice and simple tip!
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Apr 9, 2009 at 10:16 pm
Thank you
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Aug 7, 2009 at 3:23 am
I’m such an idiot! Do you know that when I recreated my blog, I used absolute positioning. The only way I could hide the SiteMeter image was to put it in a div and then create another div to cover the SiteMeter div.
Why didn’t I think of your idea? Thanks a lot!
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Oct 11, 2009 at 3:13 am
Thanks! Simple yet elegant tip. Really appreciate that.
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Jan 7, 2010 at 4:20 am
Awesome, thanks! Hope they don’t ban me
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