Counters on Western sites

Yes there is counters, but they usually don't put them on display like ours. Craving for show, nothing more, IMHO.

It depends on what is considered a "counter." if the picture at the bottom of the page then Yes, in the West usually don't like in contrast to the Russian pollute their pages with all sorts of left-wing buttons.
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If considered a counter tool for the analysis of visits that used in the West and in Russia.
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Yandex.metric, google they know how to count, without buttons on the website. We recently decided piwik, since the metric is almost not in use — convenient + adblock and all sorts of other bannerbreak it is not cut, unlike other counters, and therefore shows a more accurate data (a difference of about 5% with the metric GA)

usually at the counter what that advertiser to gauge the popularity of the website, correct if what not so. Even then you can tie a counter on the site that he hadn't been seen and he believed, and of course without any tricks cheat.