Does anyone have some advice on a good hit or visitor counter?

I am using the hit counter that comes with Composr and have placed it on the left side panel on the Welcome Zone. This counter is recording hits just fine on Welcome zone activity.

I also put another hit counter (the one that comes with Composr) in the Forum. I gave it a different name than what is on the Welcome zone but I find it does not record any hits - well it records 1 hit but never adds to that. I don't know why it's not working?

See if there's some kind of JavaScript error in your browser's error console. Probably there is and it's stopping further JavaScript running. (the counter updates via JavaScript so bots don't update it)