Both put a live number on your Blogger site. They differ on price, page weight, who holds the data, and what is left behind when you remove them. Below is the comparison written the way we'd want to read it — including the cases where paying for old Blogger counters is the better call.
Compared against the widget category on Blogger's gadget list and the old counter sites: the built-in Blog Stats gadget, Histats, StatCounter embeds, the classic hit-counter and flag-counter images. Prices are the typical public range at the time of writing, not a quote — check the listing you're looking at.
| FeedPulse | old Blogger counters | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free forever. No tier, no card, no per-site fee. | Mostly free, which is fair — the cost here is usually ads, branding or a link back rather than money |
| What you install | Nothing. One <script> tag you paste once. | A gadget or a pasted image tag; several of the old counter services are abandoned and quietly stopped updating |
| Page weight | ~5 KB, async, loaded after your content. | Image-based counters are light; the ad-supported ones pull third-party scripts and trackers with them |
| Where the data lives | Aggregate counts on our side. No IP stored, no profile built. | Held by whichever counter service you picked, often on a public stats page anyone can read |
| Cookies & consent | No cookies, no fingerprinting, no consent banner needed. | The ad-supported ones set tracking cookies, which is the usual reason an otherwise simple blog needs a banner |
| Updates | Nothing to update. The embed URL is versioned, so it can't break under you. | Several of these services have been unmaintained for a decade; when one disappears, your counter resets to zero |
| Removing it | Delete the snippet. Nothing is left behind. | Remove the gadget; the historical count is gone with the service |
| Free-plan limits | None. Every widget and every SEO tool is in the free product. | Free, but typically with the vendor's logo, a required backlink, or ads beside your counter |
Blogger's own Blog Stats gadget is zero-effort and good enough if you only want a page-view number and never think about it again. And if you want the authentic 2006-era counter image, the old services still have exactly that look.
Use the built-in gadget for a number you'll never look at. Use FeedPulse when you want a live, styleable widget — flags, online-now, a heatmap — with no ads, no backlink and no dead service risk.
Use the built-in gadget for a number you'll never look at. Use FeedPulse when you want a live, styleable widget — flags, online-now, a heatmap — with no ads, no backlink and no dead service risk. Blogger's own Blog Stats gadget is zero-effort and good enough if you only want a page-view number and never think about it again. And if you want the authentic 2006-era counter image, the old services still have exactly that look.
Mostly free, which is fair — the cost here is usually ads, branding or a link back rather than money FeedPulse has no paid tier at all — all 18 widgets and 12 SEO tools are in the free product.
Removing the FeedPulse snippet leaves nothing behind — it is one script tag. Remove the gadget; the historical count is gone with the service