You of course know who those characters are. You can't fail to recognize them as they are extremely well drawn and detailled.

This is to thank Sheepy for her grateful forgiveness

Please bow and chant prayers.

There's no counter, but we all know every person on this planet visited this shrine at least once a day. So the number of digits would be so high that it would crash your browser (memory overflow). Even if you got several GB of RAM.