Count the characters - bit by bit!
Pyke, 1 6 bytes
1cn;1c

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1c     - chunk(size=1, input)
  n;1  - noop. 
     c - count(^)

Half of this code is just no-ops...
00110001 - 1
01100011 - c
01101110 - n
00111011 - ;
00110001 - 1
01100011 - c