So If someone reads my add in the Beaches leader and goes to my site that is listed there having the hit counter on the bottom of the home pg literally guarantees that that person is not going to be a cash customer. Seems like a big stretch to me.
It is my site I pay annual provider fee for the site I have access to the control panel. I do not like using that info I find the bar graphs pretty much tell me nothing. The hit counter is right there and accurate and easy and I like it I'm sorry that all of you professional web designers do not like them.
My original site had background midi music on every pg and then later mp3 music files and had the workhorse painting all animal band playing the orange blossom special on the home pg I had the swf file of 20 different job examples the html or meta tags was entirely wrong so the site was invisible for 4 years to the search engines. Anyway it is light years ahead of where it was and all the time it had hit counters prominent in view so now the hit counter will be pretty well out of sight so I think I am going to stop agonizing over the hit counter

I have refrained from putting in pink clouds and asking the way to the pink cloud. I have refrained from saying Repaint you thinners and thin no more. I have refrained from saying that the agony of poor quality lives on far beyond the delight of low price.
Guess that I am a Maverick site designer

Maybe you just have your head in the clouds

Stop sniffing the paint thinner and get back to work on your site!