I tried and got it to be invisible on a new style sheet and it appeared as if it was still counting. I was clueless how that happened. Usually if you mess with this code it breaks. I have some of my counters I messed woth working but no longer logging to the needstat top 1000 catalog, they still count though. Then I searched around and found a few sites that had the logo superDUPER tiny(not pbase members). Almost un-noticeable. I can probably find the page again but I could not make heads nor tails of the code. It looks like they are a paying member of needstat cu the code looked much different. They have a couple levels of fairly costly stat services they sell.
Someone I am sure can beat the system, but it is free. That's what they do is trade you the free counter for some exposure. They would prefer you did not hack it. To each his own though.
Someone here can posibly hack it gently though. Like I said I had it counting and invisible at one time it seemed. I just don't know how I did it nor can I repeat it. Then I checked into the upgrades and decided against them.
I was trying to find a way to make it a bit smaller when I was messing around.
Maybe someone will have the solution to small....I will be curious.
Cheers
PS...It is rather large icon thingy and that is a major drawback for me as well.