Once again, CORS sucks. Had to do another work around... I got a visitor counter in my own style working! Its using a Cloudflare Worker + KV. Edge script tracks unique visitors and returns counts as JS for the page to render. Now we can see daily and total visits in the bottom bar :D
Considering the ammount of JS that your site uses have you considered moving to a different hosting site?
Foolish as it may be, not even once. I like the community in Neocities far too much. I'd rather struggle and complain and overcome the hurdles as they arise haha
your determination is admirable! keep up the great work