For those who have a site, and aren't using it, I wanted to make sure to recommend the Site Meter, Counter and Statistics Tracker, for tracking how much traffic you are getting on your site.

First, it is free. 
Second, it is unobtrusive on your site. 
Third, it is one of the most used tracking systems, and it is what is used by the largest sites - such as DailyKos, Gizmodo, etc.

Take a look at the above links, you also get hourly, daily, weekly, and yearly views. Very nice.

I currently have three systems that I see views on, that I check weekly.  One is what is built-in to blogware, the blog provider I use. The second is Blogpatrol , which is down every other week, and when you use it, always pops up an advertising window - and then Sitemeter.

Sitemeter has been the most transparent, fastest, and most consistent, by a long shot. 

Sitemeter is also very good at discounting the traffic from spammers, and only getting "live bodies" - which is one of the issues with blogware. (According to blogware, this site gets an amazing amount of traffic - but it includes various spamblogs, without breaking them out.)

It's possible that sitemeter doesn't contain traffic from RSS feeds - which blogware claims it does - but again, without a breakout of "real" feeds from spam feeds, it's hard to say.

At any rate, for those who are interested in such things - definitely add Sitemeter as your counter!