dilana

This pugin animates your favicon with animated badges. It shows the number of unread posts since your last visit on your site’s favicon.
Based on favico.js script ( see http://lab.ejci.net/favico.js/ ).
Whats new:
<ol>
<li>4 types of animations</li>
<li>Color settings</li>
<li>Shape settings</li>
<li>Select a time period for the new posts</li>
<li>Select a time period for the favicon update</li>
</ol>
<h3>Arbitrary section</h3>

Favicon Notifications

Animate your favicon with animated notification badge.

BestiaDurmiente

This is a widget based on <a href="http://jungwirths.com/2009/03/simple-wordpress-hit-counter-plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">Simple Hit Counter</a> 
by pjungwirth. All you have to do is drag the widget to your desired widget container, set up the title, 
text to display and font size and color for the counter and voilà.
It was developed for (and tested in) WordPress MU 1.3

Visit Counter

Widget that prints a count of the number of hits your blog has received, tracked in the database.

Favicon Notifications vs Visit Counter