I strongly recommend Zero, its our product. tigermedia.ca/zero/ A lot more features than those freebie counters and its server-side. I have it running on all of our websites and our traffic continually grows, many sites doubled, tripled since adding it and have continued to grow in size from managing traffic trades.
Hi, I also use Google Analytics, if i can manage to put it on my blogs anyone can. I am a newbie and learning as i go and it is really easy to use and understand. Have fun from Kim