DinkyMetrics

• Version: 1.0.0
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• Tagline: Counter module that rolls like a real odometer on the frontend.
• Released: Yes

Showing a handful of headline figures like years in business, articles published, and categories covered is a common way for a site to state its scale at a glance. Up to now, Joomla has no built-in way to do it nicely. One either has to hardcode the numbers into an article (and forget to update them), or reach for a general-purpose counter-plugin that drags in its own animation library, its own markup, and assumptions about numbers the site doesn't actually have. DinkyMetrics takes the small and focused route instead: a tiny, dependency-free module that prints a row of figures, counts the ones it can straight from the site's own content, and gets out of the way for everything else.

Features:

• Choose a source per figure: a typed-in number, years/months/days since a date, a count of articles, or a count of categories.
• Count articles across one category and its subcategories, or categories below a chosen one, at any depth.
• Filter counted articles and categories by status, featured state and access level, not just Joomla's own article-count badge.
• Add an optional prefix, suffix and link to any figure.
• Decide how thousands are grouped and how many decimal places to show, per instance.
• Follow the site's language or choose one explicitly; server and browser always format numbers the same way.
• Count figures up from zero when the module scrolls into view, or right after the page loads.
• Choose the easing and duration of the count-up animation.
• Reduced-motion visitors always see the plain number. The finished figure sits in the page regardless of JavaScript.
• Ships with one small, optional stylesheet and no colours of its own.
• Override the markup, or switch off the bundled stylesheet and script entirely, from your own template.

Download of latest module version: Dinky Matrics version 1.0.0 (zip)

Source code to be found at GitHub project dinkymetrics.