Counter is used for counting visitors on your website. You are able to access counter option through cpanel >> cgi center >> counters. You can set counter for your cpanel account as per below.

* Go to counter option in your cpanel hosting control panel. Cpanel >> CGI center >> counters.
* Click radio button against counter.
* Edit/Reset a counter
* Counter name:- defaults counter name is cpanel username. This will cerate username.dat file under /var/cpanel/Counter directory.
* Click on Make HTML it generates following lines.

* Copy the above lines then on shell prompt go to directory
# cd /var/cpanel/Counters

Check file is created with the name username.dat. Change the file permission to 777.
# vi username.dat

Paste the above copied lines in file then save the file. Now counter is set for your main cpanel domain name.