Display last update and visitors on Neocities

This guide is for publicly displaying a date your site was last updated and how many visitors you’ve had on your website.

It uses the technique as explained by Dannarchy here.

I just wanted to simplify it a bit and make it a little easier to implement if you’re not at a place where you can understand everything right away.

• Go to the page you want to display this information and paste the following code:

 <script>     
  var xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
  xhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
    if (this.readyState == 4 && this.status == 200) {
     var site_data = JSON.parse(this.responseText);
     var num_arr = site_data.info.views.toString().split("");
var num_str = "";
for (i = 0; i < num_arr.length; i++) {
 num_str += num_arr[i];
 if ( (num_arr.length-1 - i) % 3 == 0 && (num_arr.length-1 - i) != 0 ) {num_str += ",";}
var date_str = site_data.info.last_updated;
var date_obj = new Date(site_data.info.last_updated);
document.getElementById("lastupdate").innerHTML = (date_obj.getMonth()+1) + "-" + date_obj.getDate() + "-" + date_obj.getFullYear();
}
document.getElementById("hitcount").innerHTML = num_str;
    }
  };
  xhttp.open("GET", "https://weirdscifi.ratiosemper.com/neocities.php?sitename=USERNAME", true);
  xhttp.send();</script>
Code language: JavaScript (javascript)

• In the code above, change USERNAME to match your Neocities username.
• Wherever you want to display the last update data, use this:

Last Updated: <span id="lastupdate"></span>
Code language: HTML, XML (xml)

• Wherever you want to display your hit count, use this:

You are Visitor #:  <span id="hitcount"></span>
Code language: HTML, XML (xml)

That’s all you need to do! If you’d like to learn more about how this works, definitely check out Dannarchy’s page.