One of the questions we get asked all the time is, why, when your web counter service offers dozens and dozens of free tools that other companies charge for, is your web counter a free service? It's a tough question to answer, but the simple answer is "because if you love our free service, you'll tell your friends, and our company will grow and grow."
We don't put ads on your webpage, and we don't make you click all over banners on the admin site. We don't even sell your personal information to other parties; we just offer a quality, cutting edge, easy to use, free service that we believe is the industry's best.
Confused? Doesn't make any sense when every other service out there is charging money for a lesser web counter service? We never claimed it would make sense, but that's the simple answer.
The more complex answer is that, though RiteCounter doesn't charge for its services, we will offer, in the near future, an expanded service with larger log size, and several new features that are still in development, and for that we will be charging a small fee, but we won't limit or reduce what free account holders get in any way, now, or when that new account becomes available.
Put simply - we break even on every customer that uses our service, but we profit greatly in terms of reputation, market share, company value and future networking. When a million users make use of our service, that helps our other businesses get noticed, and that's where we make enough revenue to keep RiteCounter growing strongly.
If that seems like a weird way to run a leading edge information technology business - hey, we agree. But, in reality, there's just no reason that businesses and individuals who run ecommerce websites for a living should have to pay for something as basic and easy to provide as quality server tools and web counter services, and so we've made sure they don't have to.
They say there's no such thing as a free lunch, but at RiteCounter, we're working hard to make that saying no longer applies. RiteCounter is 100% free, 100% reliable, 100% easy to use, and 100% better than simple server-side domain statistics.
Whether you're in the insurance industry, the financial services industry, the agricultural industry, or you maintain a webpage devoted to Anna Kournikova's legs, RiteCounter's array of free web counter tools will benefit you immediately.
It takes just minutes to start using our web counters, and there's never ever any charge to those that do... What have you got to lose?
