Congrats Statcounter !

(Aodhan Cullen, picture from BusinessWeek)


Statcounter, which is very famous in the blogging world has won the top position in Europe’s Young Entrepreneurs, an annual contest by Business Week. This Dublin, Ireland based company was started by Aodhan Cullen in 1999, at the age of 16 years.

Statcounter is mostly free, ad based, internet site that lets people view the statistics of the hits on their webpages. It also gives added features to track search words, browser information and geographical location of its visitors. This tracking website is most popular among others with bloggers and also with small and mid sized companies, who don’t have big budget.

What started as request for Cullen’s client for web-designing is now attracting attention of giants such as Google, which launched a similar service after buying the web analytics company, Urchin Software. Presently Statcounter gets more hits in US than names such as Adobe, Dell , Wal-Mart, etc. Though he is getting attention from Venture Capitalist, Cullen has decided to go alone for the time being.

Coming just behind Statcounter were companies as Sofia, Bulgaria based JT International, Amsterdam based social networking site Wakoopa, London based Kwiqq and on the 5th position is Amsterdam based Dot Kite Lab.

Congrats Statcounter!