What we count
- Which pages are viewed.
- The website that sent you, as a domain only (for example
x.comorgoogle.com) and any campaign tags in the link (utm_*). - Country, from our network provider (Cloudflare), and device type and browser family (for example "mobile · Safari").
- Whether a page stayed open and visible for 10 seconds, and whether you clicked through to LeoDex.
How daily visitors are counted without tracking you
To count unique visitors per day, the server briefly combines a shortened IP address (the last part removed), your browser's user-agent string and a random key that exists only in server memory and is replaced every day. The result is a short code. The IP address and browser string themselves are never written down, and because the key is destroyed each day, nobody, including us, can recognise you on a later day. Inside one browser tab, a random id kept in sessionStorage groups the pages of one visit; it disappears when you close the tab.
Your choices
- Global Privacy Control / Do Not Track: if your browser sends either signal, we record an anonymous page view only: no visit id, no daily code and nothing stored in your browser.
- Don't count me: the button below tells this browser to send nothing at all.
Your browser is sending a privacy signal, so your visits are already anonymous.
Search engines, AI assistants and bots
We also count requests from search engines, AI crawlers, AI assistants (for example when ChatGPT or Claude reads a page to answer someone) and link previews, as totals per type and page. This tells us whether NearStats is being found and cited. It never identifies a person.
Feedback
If you use the Feedback button, we keep what you write, the contact you optionally give, the page, your browser details and IP address, so we can handle the report and stop abuse. With diagnostics switched on, we also receive a screenshot and recent console and network logs, with secrets removed. Reports go to the NearStats team's private Discord channel.
Retention and sharing
We don't sell or share analytics data and we show no ads. Raw analytics rows are deleted after 13 months, and daily aggregate counts after 13 months. Data is processed on our own server. Questions: use the Feedback button or reach @nearstatsorg on X.