jwenjian/visitor-badge
Visitor Badge
Visitor Badge is a service that generates dynamic image badges to display real-time visitor counts on web pages and markdown files. It functions as a lightweight analytics solution for static sites and documentation pages that lack native backend infrastructure.
The service creates visual counters by rendering text and colors into rasterized images on the fly. Appearance and identification data are determined by URL parameters, allowing for custom labels and color schemes without requiring database lookups for each request.
Traffic monitoring is performed through stateless HTTP request analysis, which parses incoming headers and metadata to track page views without the use of client-side cookies or persistent storage. Visitor tallies are maintained using in-memory persistence to facilitate high-speed updates, with generated assets distributed via edge-cached delivery to manage traffic.
Features
- Counter Badges - Creates dynamic image badges that display real-time visitor counts on web pages.
- In-Memory Counters - Maintains visitor tallies in volatile server memory for high-speed real-time updates.
- Static Site Analytics - Provides lightweight visitor tracking for static sites without requiring backend infrastructure.
- Stateless Request Tracking - Tracks page views by parsing incoming request headers without relying on client-side cookies.
- HTTP Request Header Inspectors - Monitors page views by parsing incoming request headers without client-side storage.
- Static Site Analytics Integrations - Offers a lightweight analytics solution for static sites and profiles.
- Markdown Documentation - Embeds live traffic statistics into documentation pages using standard image syntax.
- Documentation Analytics - Tracks visitors to project documentation by embedding dynamic image badges.
- Query-Parameter-Driven Configurations - Determines badge appearance and identification data directly from URL query parameters.
- Traffic Consumption Visualizations - Displays real-time visitor counts using customizable image badges for visual feedback.
- Dynamic Image Generation - Generates visual assets on-the-fly based on URL parameters for web embedding.
