LiveTrafficFeed is the closest thing to a direct competitor: a free scrolling visitor feed you embed with one snippet, no account. Credit where due — it works. The differences are the branding link it requires, the fixed widget styling, and the fact that the feed is the only thing it does.
Still online, still free, still styled like 2009. Everything below is checked against livetrafficfeed.com itself — but pricing and limits move, so confirm anything that matters on their own page before deciding.
| FeedPulse | LiveTrafficFeed | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free forever, with no history upsell. | Free, with a paid tier for more history |
| Signup | None, same as theirs. | No account needed for the basic feed |
| What you get | The same live feed, plus 17 other widgets from one account-free snippet pattern. | A scrolling feed of recent visitors with location and referrer |
| Required link back | No required backlink. | The free widget carries a visible link back to livetrafficfeed.com |
| Cookies & privacy | Country only, no IP stored, no cookies. | Logs per-visitor location and referrer and displays them publicly |
| Customisation | Full CSS control — it renders inline, not in a locked iframe. | Fixed widget sizes and a small set of colour presets |
| Where the data lives | Yours, in a dashboard, exportable. | Held on their side; history depth is the paid upsell |
| Removing it | Delete the snippet. Nothing left behind. | Remove the snippet; history is theirs |
If all you want is a visitor feed and you do not mind the backlink, LiveTrafficFeed is a perfectly reasonable free choice and has been for fifteen years. It also needs no dashboard at all, which some people prefer.
Pick LiveTrafficFeed if the backlink and the fixed styling do not bother you. Pick FeedPulse if you want the feed to match your design, carry no link out, and come with the rest of the widget set.
Pick LiveTrafficFeed if the backlink and the fixed styling do not bother you. Pick FeedPulse if you want the feed to match your design, carry no link out, and come with the rest of the widget set. If all you want is a visitor feed and you do not mind the backlink, LiveTrafficFeed is a perfectly reasonable free choice and has been for fifteen years. It also needs no dashboard at all, which some people prefer.
Three things: no required backlink, full CSS control because the widget renders inline instead of in a fixed iframe, and country-only location with no cookies or IP storage. Plus 17 other widgets and 12 SEO tools on the same free terms.
Nothing, at any traffic level. There is no paid tier to upgrade to, no session cap and no card on file — the whole product is free, including every other widget and all the SEO tools.